Simpson:  Our fishing was a disaster last week. Biologists reported runoff following Hurricane Irene turned the coastal rivers into deoxygenated sewers, wiping out fish populations and requiring several years for inland coastal fisheries to recover.

Saltwater and freshwater

The U.S. House has unanimously passed a bill that would allow a bigger herd of free-roaming Corolla horses in Currituck County in an effort to create more genetic diversity in the herd.

Kneeling in 6 inches of muddy water in Dick's Bay behind Masonboro Island, Ted Wilgis hoisted a large clump of Eastern oysters in one rubber-gloved hand.

Shaffer:  The men arrived toting crocks of wild boar gravy, trays of deer quesadilla and plastic tubs of kangaroo meat.

When Heather Shepherd says she was born into hunting, she means it.

A pack of pickups parked along a puddle-dappled farm road in Duplin County, soybeans and corn in long-picked fields nearby giving way to planted crops of winter wheat or volunteer grasses and wild onions.

Alison Morton, a senior at Leesville Road High School, has hunted by herself for three years, but said she had never experienced anything like the 12-point buck she killed the weekend after Thanksgiving.