With people spending more time outside than before amid the COVID-19 pandemic, L.L. Bean's Vice President of Merchandising has tips on how you can dress warmly this winter. North Carolinians found two pandemic-friendly activities this year in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic: hunting and fishing. According to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, this year's fishing, hunting and combination license sales have exceeded prior year sales. In the past seven to eight months, license revenue has increased more than 20%, and vessel revenue is up more than 10%. âWithout a shadow of doubt, I think we can attribute the increase in hunting and fishing as a direct result of COVID-19 and the situations that ensued,â said Paul Thompson, Northern Mountains Land Management Biologist with WRC.