The community of Hampstead, North Carolina hosts the North Carolina Spot Festival the last weekend of September to honor the fish.
Spot-billed Pelican | spot | Wulfric Spot | Spot croaker | Spot-billed Toucanet | SPOT | See Spot Run | croaker | SPOT (satellite) | SPOT (producer) | Moondog Spot | Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot | Gunnin' for That #1 Spot | T-SPOT.TB | The Spot | The Blind Spot | The blind spot | Sweet Spot (song) | Spot-winged Wood Quail | Spot Welders | Spot the Dog | ''Spot'' | No. 5 spot on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip Hop Chart and No. 31 Billboard's Hot 100 | G-spot | Clear Spot |
After insertion of various types of BRDs in the shrimp trawl nets, significant reductions were noted for Spanish mackerel, weakfish, croakers and spot in the South Atlantic region and for Atlantic croakers, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel and red snapper in the Gulf region.
The village annually catches over 385 tons of shrimp, 25 tons of flounder, and approximately 493 tons of other seafood like clams, scallops, oysters, mullet, spot, grouper, soft shell and hard shell crabs, sea bass, and more.