impact of advancing technology on 

 people and the job market. Working 

 with the Center for Manpower 

 Development at A & T, Hashemzadeh 

 and Simmons will then try to assess 

 the industry's manpower requirements 

 for the future. 



Bluefish 



The bluefish is no stranger to coastal 

 residents. Each year more than 100 

 million pounds of bluefish are caught 

 by sport and commercial fishermen in 

 the United States. 



But, like many ocean migrating fish, 

 the bluefish has scientists baffled. 

 Because the bluefish is hard to track, 

 fisheries experts are unsure about the 

 number of species or subspecies which 

 live along the Atlantic coast. 



Some experts believe that the an- 

 nual harvesting of bluefish smacks of 



overfishing. But no adequate manage- 

 ment plan for the species can be drawn 

 up until scientists are clear about its 

 life history and migration patterns. 



This year J.B. Sullivan of the Duke 

 University Marine Laboratory and 

 Chuck Manooch of the National 

 Marine Fisheries Service office in 

 Beaufort, will cooperate on a study 

 designed to identify bluefish breeding 

 pools off the North Carolina coast. If 

 their theory that there is more than 

 one subspecies proves correct, they 

 plan to extend the study to other areas 

 along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. 



Education 



In Carolyn Hampton's view, North 

 Carolina has outreached its grasp of 

 coastal problems, and some valuable 

 resources have been squandered. 

 Hampton, a zoologist and ECU pro- 



fessor, believes students need to learn 

 more about the coast so that they can 

 make good decisions later. 



In 1979, with Sea Grant project- 

 initiation funds, Hampton organized at 

 ECU a course in marine studies for 

 prospective educators. Sea Grant has 

 also funded the project for 1980, team- 

 ing up with ECU's established educa- 

 tion program to introduce marine 

 scholarship into the studies of future 

 leaders in education. The grant 

 provides for three fellowships. In the 

 program, prospective teachers take the 

 regular education courses, but include 

 nine hours of internship in marine 

 education. Hampton hopes students 

 can be placed in the state's marine 

 resources centers, or in other facili- 

 ties where they can meet coastal 

 issues head-on. Bonnie Temple of Zebu- 

 Ion is the first intern in the pro- 

 gram. 



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 squashed to death by motorists 

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As the headlines grew bolder and 

 the controversies more heated dur- 

 ing the 1970s, coastal communities 

 and regulatory agencies became 

 more acutely aware of the need for 

 solid information. Picking what 

 seemed to be some of the most 

 significant issues, Sea Grant fund- 

 ed research that has already led to 

 a rethinking of regulations cover- 

 ing problems as diverse as waste- 

 water disposal, off-road driving 

 and coastal construction. 



Twenty-one Sea Grant research 

 projects are being continued this 

 year. In some of these, researchers 



have 

 ready 

 their 

 and 



al- 

 reached 

 key goals 

 are shaping 

 their findings into final 

 reports. For others, this year will 

 be the year investigators come up 

 with some new insight into some 

 very contemporary concerns. 



Erosion is still chewing away at the 

 state's shorelines, and coastal land- 

 owners are asking: What can be done? 

 Several teams of Sea Grant researchers 

 studied pieces of the problem in 1979. 

 In 1980, they will begin to put those 



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Researchers Ernie Seneca and Steve 

 Broome, both of NCSU, have con- 

 cluded that marsh grasses, if ade- 

 quately fertilized, can stabilize eroding 

 shorelines along the state's sounds. At 

 some of the test sites, marsh grasses 



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