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Fishing guides cast concerns over shellfish lease proliferation

Capt. Ray Brittain, owner of Spring Tide Guide Service near Topsail Island, looks out at a water column shellfishing lease in the waters behind Topsail Island. Photo: Trista Talton First of two parts SURF CITY – Capt. Ray Brittain wasn’t kidding. The white PVC pipes he described at a public meeting last April as jutting from waters that hug stretches of banks and fill pockets of bays in the sounds behind Topsail Island are easily in the hundreds…
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Coastal Review Online broke the news on Tuesday, June 9, 2026.
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