258 MARINE FISHERIES OF NORTH CAROLINA 



ments; some make more than one trip a day. In North Carolina such boats 

 have seldom been built or purchased for anglers' use. 



Because of physical and faunal conditions which vary with the grounds, 

 it is probable that uniform boat charges throughout the State would be un- 

 fair. The present (1946- 194 7) charges run in general as follows: 



Charter boats: $60 to $80 per day, often depending on the distance 

 offshore. 



Commercial boats used for individual anglers or not more than six people: 

 $35 to $60 per day. Many of these boats will not go more than a few miles 

 offshore. 



Party boats: $25 to $80 per day (inshore, $25 to $50), or $3.50 to $8.00 

 per person per trip; higher prices may include gear, food, or sleeping 

 quarters. 



Small boats for fishing or hunting, with guide, about $15 per person per 

 day. 



Skiffs or rowboats without guide: about $1.50; with guide, $7 per person 

 per day. 



Boat owners are managing to keep their prices to anglers fairly reasonable 

 by varying them with locality, seasons, and grounds, but in the great major- 

 ity of cases they are unable to produce any printed statement either of 

 current prices or of types of boats available. These inevitably vary from 

 year to year, and the post-war years will see substantial increase in the 

 number of angling boats. Many boat owners are planning to get charter 

 boats, or more charter boats, if possible. Whatever the situation, they should 

 have available in print the information I have mentioned above. 



REGIONAL DISCUSSION 



It must be remembered in connection with the following material that 

 the boat situation is a shifting one, from year to year and even from week 

 to week; therefore figures can only be approximate. 



For purposes of discussion, fishing areas may be roughly divided into the 

 Nags Head-Roanoke Island-Portsmouth section; the Morehead City- 

 Swansboro section, and the Wilmington-Shallotte section. These sections 

 are understood to include intervening angling grounds of which there are 

 many. There are a few communities, like Swanquarter, which although 

 distant from the ocean have marine fishing and boats available to anglers. 

 Such places have no boats for outside fishing. 



NAGS HEAD-ROANOKE ISLAND-PORTSMOUTH 



The most famous offshore fishing grounds for this section is Diamond 

 Shoals, lying about 19 miles from Hatteras Inlet and 323/2 miles from 

 Ocracoke Inlet. 



