Personnel from U.S. Coast Guard Station Wrightsville Beach and Pender County 911 Communications Center discuss their partnership Sept. 21, 2017, in Wrightsville Beach and Burgaw, North Carolina. On July 23, 2017, Pender County 911 Communications Center personnel and Station Wrightsville Beach personnel responded to a mayday call of an overturned boat with five people aboard. Using updates from Pender County, Station Wrightsville Beach personnel located the overturned vessel and rescued all five people. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Joshua L. Canup/released)
The Coast Guard would like to remind anglers to obtain the proper permits prior to going fishing.
Coast Guard boarding team members from Station Barnegat Light and Manasquan Inlet caught three recreational boat crews fishing without the required permits recently.
