Does the prospect of 

 tax time make you 

 flinch? If you're a com- 

 mercial fisherman or 

 charter boat owner, a 

 series of tax workshops 

 sponsored by Sea Grant 

 and the N.C. Agricultural Extension 

 Service could make things a little easier. 



Whether you usually prepare your 

 tax forms yourself or hire a profession- 

 al, you may not be aware of all the 

 ways you can legally cut down on your 

 taxes. Did you know, for instance, that 

 you might be able to save money if you 

 include on your payroll family mem- 

 bers who work for you? 



Sea Grant's economist Leon Abbas 

 and agricultural extension economists 

 Jim Easley and Bill Eickhoff are plan- 

 ning three tax workshops for commer- 

 cial fishermen and charter boat own- 

 ers to be held during January in Wil- 

 mington and at the Marine Resources 

 Centers on Bogue Banks and Roanoke 

 Island. Final dates have not yet been 

 set. For more information, contact the 

 Sea Grant agent in your area: Leon 

 Abbas, Raleigh (919) 737-2454; Jim 

 Bahen, Fort Fisher, (919) 458-5498; 

 Bob Hines, Bogue Banks, (919) 726- 

 0125; and Hughes Tillett, Roanoke 

 Island, (919) 473-3937. 



Discussions will cover a variety of 

 topics, including income averaging, tax 

 changes for 1980, the effects on taxes of 

 buying and selling assets, depreciation 

 and investment credit. A represen- 

 tative of the Internal Revenue Service 

 also will be present. 



To some folks 4-H means cows, 

 chickens and tobacco. But 4-H is much 

 more than agriculture for the 190,000 

 young people who are members of 4-H 

 clubs in North Carolina. Through club 

 meetings and special interest groups, 

 many of them learn about everything 

 from bicycling to political science. 



Beginning next spring, marine 

 studies will be added to the repertoire 

 of subjects leaders teach at club 

 meetings. Last summer Sea Grant 

 awarded a mini-grant so that Paulette 

 Britt of Raleigh could write several 

 lesson plans to be used in 4-H club ses- 

 sions. Britt, a former teacher and ex- 

 tension agent, worked with education 

 specialists Lundie Mauldin of Sea 

 Grant and Neal Conoley of the Office 

 of Marine Affairs. Together, they came 

 up with four simple lesson plans 

 designed to increase the club members' 

 understanding of the ecology and 

 economy of the coastal area. 



Along the state's 

 sounds and estuaries, 

 erosion is raking away 

 soil and hitting land- 

 owners where they live. 

 A study by Sea Grant re- 

 searchers Ernie Seneca 

 and Steve Broome of North Carolina 

 State University has shown that, in 

 many cases, marsh grasses planted 

 along shorelines can slow or stop ero- 

 sion. But now that the word is out, 

 there is a problem: How can people 



find the kind of cordgrass they need for 

 transplants? 



Dune grasses have been available 

 from dealers for some time, but Seneca 

 says he's been unable to find anyone 

 interested in supplying landowers with 

 marsh grass. So he has begun to 

 develop nurseries to produce the 

 grasses — one near Lockwood Folly In- 

 let, one near Beaufort, and one near 

 Sunset Beach. He plans a fourth nur- 

 sery in the Manteo area next year. 



Seneca is training county agricul- 

 tural extension agents to manage nur- 

 series and provide landowners with the 

 plants and information they need to 

 start their own plantings. 



Not all plantings succeed. But 

 Broome says slow-release fertilizers im- 

 prove the odds for a good stand of 

 grass. In some test sites, he has found 

 shortages of nitrogen and phosphorus, 

 which he says should be added to the 

 furrows when the grasses are planted. 



Coastwatch is published monthly 

 except July and December by the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina Sea Grant 

 College Program, 105 1911 Building, 

 North Carolina State University, 

 Raleigh, NC 27650, Vol. 6, No. 10, 

 November, 1979. Dr. B.J. Copeland, 

 director. Written and edited by Mary 

 Day Mordecai, Neil Caudle and Kathy 

 Hart. Second-class postage paid at 

 Raleigh, NC 27611. 



COASTWATCH 



105 1911 Building 



North Carolina State University 



Raleigh, NC 27650 



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