Aug. 16 — Paul Hosier on the effect 

 of off-road vehicles on the 

 beach environment; 



Aug. 23 — Marie Louise Peterson on 

 wildflowers of the Outer 

 Banks; 



Aug. 30 — Glen Eure on folklore of 

 the Outer Banks. 



Remember the self-cleaning oyster? 

 Well, he tidies up even faster in warm 

 weather. 



The Back Page reported earlier that 

 Mark Sobsey, a Sea Grant researcher, 

 was relaying oysters from polluted 

 waters to clean waters in the North 

 River near Morehead City. In winter 

 months his tests showed that con- 

 taminated oysters eliminated 99.9 per- 

 cent of the viral contaminants in their 

 systems by the end of a four-week 

 period. 



In experiments conducted in March 

 and April when water temperatures 

 were between 59°F and 68°F in the 

 North River, Sobsey found that 

 oysters flushed 99.9 percent of the con- 

 taminants from their bodies in three 

 days. 



Those are our shrimp! 

 They grew up in our 

 rivers," say Louisian- 

 ians. "But they're in my 

 waters now,'' say 

 Texans. Whose shrimp 

 are they and who con- 

 trols the fishing rights to them? Those 

 are the sort of questions state and 

 federal representatives from across the 

 country will discuss in Raleigh, Oct. 29 



through 31, at a conference on state 

 and interstate fishery jurisdiction and 

 management. 



The conference is a cooperative ef- 

 fort of the UNC Sea Grant College 

 Program, the national Sea Grant office 

 in Washington, D.C., the Coastal 

 Plains Center for Marine Develop- 

 ment Services, the N.C. Marine 

 Science Council, the N.C. Department 

 of Administration's Office of Marine 

 Affairs and the N.C. Department of 

 Natural Resources and Community 

 Development. North Carolina Gov. 

 James B. Hunt Jr. is supporting the 

 conference. 



For further information, write John 

 T. Pittman, Office of Marine Affairs, 

 116 W.Jones Street, Raleigh, N.C. 

 27611. 



It took some untan- 

 gling, but the students in 

 Jim Bahen's surf fishing 

 classes for children even- 

 tually got their lines wet. 



Bahen, a Sea Grant 

 advisory agent in the 

 Wilmington area, customarily works 

 with a more seasoned clientele. 



But, on July 3, he met 20 students, 

 ages 5 to 11, at the N.C. Marine 

 Resources Center at Ft. Fisher, and 

 taught them the whys and wherefores 

 of fish, tackle and safety. Then he took 

 them to the surf for some first-hand ex- 

 perience. 



Several snarled lines and misplaced 

 casts later, the youngsters were pulling 

 in some respectable spot. 



Bahen also helped with a coastal 

 crafts day, held June 14 at the Center. 



Assessing Man 's 

 Impact on Wetlands is 

 a technical examination 

 of wetlands and the eval- 

 uation of man's impact 

 upon them. In this 

 report, author G. E. 

 Galloway of UNC-CH proposes a com- 

 prehensive Wetland Evaluation 

 System and discusses the application of 

 this model. For a copy, write UNC Sea 

 Grant and ask for UNC-SG-78- 17. 

 Single copies are free to North Carolina 

 residents; out-of-state charges are $4. 



Atlas of Colonial Waterbirds of 

 North Carolina Estuaries is a study 

 of birds like the egret, heron and tern, 

 which live along the state's estuaries. 

 The atlas, compiled by James F. Par- 

 nell of UNC-Wilmington and Robert 

 F. Soots Jr. of Campbell College, in- 

 cludes numerous photographs of the 

 birds and charts of their nesting 

 grounds. For a copy, write UNC Sea 

 Grant and ask for UNC-SG-78-10. The 

 cost is $7 for all requests. 



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. 6, June, 

 1979. Dr. B.J. Copeland, director. 

 Written and edited by Mary Day Mor- 

 decai, Neil Caudle and Kathy Hart. 

 Second-class postage paid at Raleigh, 

 NC 27611. 



COASTWATCH 



105 1911 Building 



North Carolina State University 



Raleigh, NC 27650 



Second-class postage paid 

 at Raleigh, NC 27611 

 (ISSN 0161-8369) 



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