'It's killing us': worries about business after spotted seatrout season closure

'It's killing us': worries about business after spotted seatrout season closure

For the second straight year, the spotted sea trout season was closed by the Division of Marine Fisheries in early February. Lucas Pensinger, a biologist supervisor in Morehead City with the DMF, said he believes this is the first back-to-back closure since the division began closing fisheries due to cold stunning."Since we've had the ability within the spotted seatrout fishery management plan to close the fishery, this is the first time we've h…