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N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries' estimate of the state's economic loss during the recent six-week season for flounder and black sea bass.

151

Times during those six weeks boats landed in Virginia rather than North Carolina.

$20 million

What the Army Corps of Engineers says is needed next fiscal year to try to keep it 10 feet. Only $1 million was in the president's budget proposal.

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"We got more crap in Eastern North Carolina than we know what to do with already"

Clark Wright Jr., a lawyer hired by the city of Wilson to fight the opening of a new Sanderson Farms poultry plant in neighboring Nash County. The plant, which would create 1,100 jobs, would attract chicken farms, but Wilson worries that poultry poop--loaded with nitrogen and phosphorus--would further contaminate its nutrient-rich watershed.

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A subsidiary of Madrid-based Iberdrola Renovables SA, which claims to be the world's top wind-energy producer, won approval from the N.C. Utilities Commission for a project that could power 55,000-70,000 homes. It needs additional permits, but construction could begin by year-end. The site is in a remote section known as The Desert.

PEMBROKE--Steven Roberts Original Desserts says it will open a 100,000-square-foot bakery here in July. The Denver-based company plans to employ 100 initially and add 200 within three years. It and its Ticklebelly Desserts subsidiary make sweets sold in restaurants and hotels.

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