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Floundering North Carolina Fisheries Agency Endangers Workers and Wildlife

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Floundering North Carolina Fisheries Agency Endangers Workers and Wildlife

On a misty and breezy morning last fall, Marc Hamric, a North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries veteran, and two other technicians were conducting field work in Turnagain Bay, a remote area near Cedar Island.

They had brought their boat ashore, but because the water was so rough, it came loose and floated away.

One DMF technician swam after it and had trouble hoisting himself aboard. Hamric swam to rescue him. Meanwhile, the technician managed to get on the boat and steer back to shore, but didn’t know Hamric had followed him into the bay. 

As the two technicians searched the water for Hamric, one was on speaker phone with the team’s supervisors, sobbing as he explained what happened. The technicians eventually found Hamric in the water. They tried to resuscitate him. Shortly after an ambulance arrived, medics pronounced him dead. 

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Chloe Dorin, then a biologist with DMF and one of the supervisors, was on the call.


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