The exhibit will be rotating among 

 the Marine Resources Centers at 

 Roanoke Island, Bogue Banks and 

 Fort Fisher until it is put on perma- 

 nent display next year at the NCSU 

 Eel Culture Project at Aurora. 



A holiday reminder: 

 Don't toss that 

 Christmas tree when the 

 festivities are over. Use 

 it to mend a sand dune 

 cut down by vehicles or 

 people. Just lay the tree 



in a gap in the dune line, parallel to the 

 beach and away from the surf. In 

 windy areas, a tree can trap up to five 

 feet of sand a year. 



According to Spencer Rogers, Sea 

 Grant's coastal engineering specialist, 

 beach winds pick up sand as they move 

 along. But the wind will drop its load if 

 it meets an obstacle like the thick 

 branches of a Christmas tree. 



When you do build a dune, protect 

 it. Plant it with a native beach grass to 

 anchor it in place. 



Xrapped: hundreds of small birds in 

 unused eel pots. According to Dennis 

 Regan, a Sea Grant marine advisory 

 agent on Roanoke Island, birds are en- 

 tering the wire pots, which are often 

 left stacked by a shed or near the 

 docks, to eat scrap fish left in the bait 

 wells. Once inside, many birds cannot 

 escape, and die. Regan is asking eel 

 fishermen to clean out their bait wells 

 and to stack their eel pots so that pot 

 entrances are not open to the birds. 



any North Caro- 

 lina fishermen fish not 

 only the offshore waters 

 of our state, but also the 

 waters off other states. 

 So management deci- 

 sions made in other areas 

 affect our fishermen. That's why John 

 Maiolo, an East Carolina University 

 sociologist, was given Sea Grant mini- 

 grant funds to study the impact of a 

 New England sea scallop fishery 

 management plan on North Carolina 

 fishermen. 



The plan, proposed by the New 

 England Fishery Management Coun- 

 cil, would prevent fishermen from har- 

 vesting sea scallops smaller than 30 

 meats per pound. The limitations may 

 make the trip to New England un- 

 profitable for North Carolina fisher- 

 men, but that's what Maiolo needs to 

 find out. He will be questioning fisher- 

 men and processors about their in- 

 volvement in New England scalloping. 



Another Sea Grant mini-grant was 

 awarded to Hans W. Paerl, a re- 

 searcher at the University of North 

 Carolina Institute of Marine Science in 

 Morehead City. He will be trying to 

 come up with ways to use Codium, a 

 nuisance seaweed that grows abundan- 

 tly on oyster shells. Paerl believes that 

 Codium may be used as a fertilizer or 

 an additive in paint and other 

 products. If Paerl can come up with a 

 productive use for Codium, it may 

 become economically feasible to har- 

 vest the weed, providing oystermen 

 with some extra income. 



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