Dennis Regan, an advisory agent on 

 Roanoke Island, is also teaching 

 fishing classes each Wednesday from 

 June 25 to August 7. Regan will 

 demonstrate pier fishing from 9 to 11 

 a.m. in Nags Head, and from 2 to 4 

 p.m. he will teach surf fishing at the 

 Marine Resources Center in Manteo. 

 For more information, call 473-3937. 



From the decks of the 

 Crystal Dawn, about 50 

 people ooed, ahhed and 

 clicked their cameras as 

 they watched logger- 

 head turtles, ham- 

 merhead sharks, 

 laughing gulls and a large school of 

 bluefish. The occasion was a marine 

 mammal and bird cruise, which em- 

 barked April 19 from Manteo. The 

 cruise was organized by Dennis Regan, 

 a Sea Grant marine advisory agent on 

 Roanoke Island. 



On board to help identify the mam- 

 mals and birds sighted were Guy 

 Oliver, a marine mammals expert, and 

 David Lee, a bird and mammal spe- 

 cialist with the N.C. Museum of 

 Natural History. 



Everyone had hoped to spot whales 

 on their annual trek from southern to 

 northern waters, but the giant 

 creatures didn't make an appearance. 

 Instead, onlookers were entertained by 

 a tern taking a leisurely ride on a 

 loggerhead turtle, and by the playful 

 antics of a school of porpoises. 



Regan says he is planning a similar 

 cruise for the fall. 



Pound nets set in the 

 sounds near Roanoke 

 Island usually catch cat- 

 fish, striped bass and 

 shad, but this summer, 

 one pound net will be 

 catching people. Set up 

 as a new exhibit at the N.C. Marine 

 Resources Center on Roanoke Island, 

 a 24-square-foot pound net has been 

 hung so folks can walk into the net to 

 see how it's made and how it works. 

 Along with the net will be pictures and 

 descriptions telling its history, how it's 

 built and what it catches. Set up by 

 Dale Martin and Hughes Tillet, the 

 pound net is part of a larger exhibit 

 funded by Sea Grant and the Office of 

 Marine Affairs. The exhibit will ex- 

 plain the importance of net fishing in 

 North Carolina. 



Coastal Indians once 

 shopped the marshes and 

 swamps for seasonal wild 

 plants that few people 

 think of as edible: poke 

 leaves, cattails, salt wort 

 and prickly pear cactus. 

 These were also some of the wild plants 

 on the bill of fare during Wild Foods 

 Weekend, held at the N.C. Marine 

 Resources Center at Ft. Fisher, June 

 13, 14 and 15. 



Wild foods experts taught partici- 

 pants how to identify, pick, prepare 

 and eat some of the wild, edible foods 

 found along the North Carolina coast. 

 Sea Grant agent Jim Bahen showed 

 one group of foragers how to catch a 



meal from the sea, while Bob Hines, 

 the Sea Grant agent at Bogue Banks, 

 taught participants how to catch, 

 clean and prepare eels. 



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