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SEALEVEL, N.C. – The Salvation Army is offering help to commercial fishermen struggling to make ends meet.

Rex Styron has been fishing all his life. He never thought he'd be where he was Thursday, talking with the Salvation Army about getting help with his bills.

“I don't like doing it. I don't like coming here to have to do this,” he said. “I'd rather work myself."

Styron and the other fishermen who came to the Salvation Army outreach session in Carteret County say strict federal regulations have sunk their fishing profits.

"You go and you look, and boats are sitting in the harbor,” he said. “They cant do it no more. So what can we do?"

The Salvation Army has seen the pain in this fishing community and is offering help.

"We do light bills. We do gas bills,” Salvation Army worker Brian Pitts said. “We help out with rent and gas for the home and things of that sort."

The Salvation Army also came with a truck full of food. Inside, there were about 45 boxes filled with all different types of food items.

"We have everything from cereal to powdered milk, juices, macaroni and cheese, canned goods and a lot of different stuff," Pitts said.

Community members also donated clothes and toiletries.

Linda Turner, whose husband is a struggling fisherman, says she's thankful for the help.

"Salvation Army are helping people. Maybe a lot of people don't want that charity, but its not charity,” she said. “It's what we're supposed to do. We are our brother's keeper."

Representatives from Carteret Community College visited too, giving people information about job retraining.