On Saturday, October 21 st , thousands of Outer Banks visitors and locals gathered at the Soundside Event Site in Nags Head for the 11 th annual Outer Banks Seafood Festival, proudly presented by Townebank, the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau, Wawa, Vacasa, and Vista Graphics. The mission of the Outer Banks Seafood Festival is to…Read More from Save the date for the 2024 Outer Banks Seafood Festival on October 19

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In a new study, scientists Stewart Edie of the Smithsonian, Shan Huang of the University of Birmingham and colleagues drastically expanded the list of bivalve species, such as clams, oysters, mussels, scallops and their relatives, that humans are known to harvest and identified the traits that make these species prime targets for harvesting. They also discovered that some of these same traits have…Read More from Study: More than 800 human-harvested shellfish species tend to be more resistant to extinction

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Household spending on restaurant food has grown at a faster rate than spending on groceries since restaurants began recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a Simply Business analysis of recent data from the Census Bureau and the Department of Agriculture. Story by Dom DiFurio, Simply Business Americans spent about $73 billion on groceries per…Read More from Frozen food or takeout? Americans are increasingly turning to ready-to-eat meals

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Foreign shrimp imports are overwhelming the country’s inventories of shrimp and driving market prices for locally sourced shrimp to record lows, prompting widespread calls from elected officials and organizations throughout southern Atlantic and Gulf Coast states for the federal government to declare a fishery resource disaster. Story by Trista Talton, Coastal Review Governors of coastal…Read More from Coastal Review: ‘Catastrophic crisis’ — Imported shrimp flood US market

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The franchisee who operated Hwy55 Burgers, Shakes & Fries in Elizabeth City suddenly closed the location on Monday, while the parent company says they plan to reopen the restaurant soon. One of the Mount Olive-based burger chains’ first standalone stores, the current location of Hwy 55 opened along Halstead Boulevard Extended in the summer of…Read More from Franchisee suddenly closes Hwy 55 in Elizabeth City, corporate says they will reopen soon

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