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South Carolina: Striped bass: Morone saxatilis: 1972 [59] South Dakota: Walleye: Sander vitreus: 1992 [60] Tennessee: Smallmouth bass (sport fish) Micropterus dolomieu: 2005 [61] Channel catfish (state commercial fish) Ictalurus punctatus: 1987 [61] Texas: Guadalupe bass (freshwater) Micropterus treculii: 1989 [62] Red drum (saltwater ...
It served as the state's only emblem for 14 years until the adoption of the state flag in 1885. Enacted by law in 2013, the newest symbols of North Carolina are the state art medium, clay; the state fossil, the megalodon teeth; the state frog, the Pine Barrens tree frog; the state marsupial, the Virginia opossum; and the state salamander, the ...
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is a state government agency created by the General Assembly in 1947 to conserve and sustain North Carolina 's fish and wildlife resources through research, scientific management, wise use, and public input. The Commission is the regulatory agency responsible for the enforcement of NC fishing ...
A bright blue fish was caught off the coast of North Carolina — and it could set a world record. A photo shows angler Connor Stone holding the colorful fish, a member of the species called ...
North Carolina's geography is usually divided into three biomes: Coastal, Piedmont, and the Appalachian Mountains . North Carolina is the most ecologically unique state in the southeast because its borders contain sub-tropical, temperate, and boreal habitats. Although the state is at temperate latitudes, the Appalachian Mountains and the Gulf ...
The Florida bass was named in 1822 by naturalist Charles Alexandre Lesueur, but it was originally identified as a subspecies of the largemouth bass. It was also thought to be limited to eastern ...
The North Carolina state record for smallmouth buffalo is an 88 lb (40 kg) fish caught in Lake Wylie on November 14, 1993 by Tony Crawford, [12] who had previously set the state record with a 61.02 lb (27.68 kg) fish caught at the same lake on December 1, 1991, both through use of packbait.
Lake Gaston is a reservoir in the eastern United States. [1] Part of the lake is in the North Carolina counties of Halifax, Northampton, and Warren. The part extending into Virginia lies in Brunswick and Mecklenburg counties. Lake Gaston is roughly 35 miles (56 km) long and covers over 20,000 acres (81 km 2 ), with 350 miles (560 km) of shoreline.