THE BACK PAGE 



"The Back Page" is an update on Sea 

 Grant activities — on research, marine 

 education and advisory services. It's 

 also a good place to find out about 

 meetings, workshops and new publi- 

 cations. For more information on any 

 of the projects described, contact the 

 Sea Grant offices in Raleigh (919/737- 

 2454). For copies of publications, 

 write UNC Sea Grant, NCSU, Box 

 8605, Raleigh, N.C. 27695-8605. 



This summer, 15 

 science teachers from 

 North CaroHna will see 

 the state from a new per- 

 spective. August 10 to 

 17, they'll join 15 Puerto 

 Rican teachers for the 

 "Sea to the Mountains Environmental 

 Education Workshop," organized by 

 Lundie Spence and Juan Gonzalez, 

 marine education specialists from the 

 North Carolina and Puerto Rico Sea 

 Grant programs respectively. Any 

 North Carolina science teacher with a 

 pair of tennis shoes, a sense of adven- 

 ture and a love of nature is ehgible. 



In one week, the teachers will travel 

 from the coast to the mountains, explor- 

 ing the temperate ecosystems of 

 North Carolina and learning teaching 

 techniques for marine science classes. 

 They'll trek down a nature trail at 

 Greenfield Lake, examine salt marshes 

 and ocean ecology, relive history with 

 the Cherokees and raft down the Nan- 

 tahala River. In addition, education 

 materials and field guides will be iden- 

 tified and activities from national 

 science curricula will be used. 



The week will also give the North 

 Carolina teachers the opportunity to 

 compare the state's ecosystems with 

 the tropical ones of Puerto Rico and to 

 share ideas from different cultures. 



The workshop is sponsored by UNC 

 Sea Grant, Puerto Rico Sea Grant, the 

 N.C. Math/Science centers at the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina at Wilming- 

 ton and Western Carolina University, 

 the N.C. Marine Resources Center at 

 Fort Fisher, Discovery Place, the High- 

 lands Biological Station and the N.C. 

 Wildlife Resources Commission. 



Cost for the workshop is $175. This 

 includes housing, some meals and 

 transportation costs. Deadline for reg- 

 istration is April 1. For more informa- 

 tion, write Spence at UNC Sea Grant, 

 Box 8605, N.C. State University, 

 Raleigh, N.C. 27695-8605. Or call, 

 919/737-2454. 



Sea Grant has a new seafood exten- 

 sion specialist at the NCSU Seafood 

 Laboratory in Morehead City. David 

 Green, a Ph.D. candidate in food 

 science at NCSU, will work with 

 North Carolina seafood handlers and 

 processors. 



While at NCSU, Green worked with 

 Sea Grant researchers Tyre Lanier and 

 Allen Chao on menhaden surimi pro- 

 cessing and on wastewater reduction 

 in surimi operations. 



At the seafood lab, Green will intro- 

 duce clients to new technology, empha- 

 size fundamental seafood handling 

 and processing sanitation practices, 

 and recommend measures to reduce 

 water consumption and waste genera- 

 tion during processing. Green will con- 

 tinue the lab's work on the smoking of 

 mid-Atlantic seafoods. 



If you have questions about seafood 

 processing, contact Green at the lab at 

 919/726-7341. 



If you're hooked on 

 fresh North Carolina sea- 

 food, you'll want a copy 

 of a brochure compiled 

 by Joyce Taylor, Sea 

 Grant's seafood educa- 

 tion specialist. Hooked 

 on Fresh Fish and Shellfish gives con- 

 sumers tips for choosing seafood at the 

 market. 



You should know, for example, that 

 a fresh fish will have bright, clear and 

 protruding eyes. If its eyes are cloudy, 

 pink and sunken, there's a good chance 

 that fish has been out of the water too 

 long. If a fish doesn't look fresh, it 

 won't taste fresh either, says Taylor. 



Hooked on Fresh Fish and Shellfish 

 will provide you with tips for buying 

 fresh fish, shrimp, clams, scallops, oys- 

 ters, crabs and lobsters. Taylor ex- 

 plains the difference between the var- 



ious market forms of fish, and she 

 takes the guessing out of deciding how 

 much to buy. A chart provides consum- 

 ers with serving suggestions. 



For a copy of the free brochure, 

 write Sea Grant. Ask for UNC-SG- 

 85-08. 



Both fishermen and 

 fishery managers would 

 like to know the secret 

 for the biggest catches 

 and the most profits. 

 With the help of three 

 N.C. State University 

 economists, the answer can be re- 

 vealed. 



Robert Kellogg, J.E. Easley Jr. and 

 Thomas Johnson recently developed a 

 bioeconomic model and optimal con- 

 trol theory and applied it to the North 

 Carolina bay scallop fishery. For their 

 study, biologic and economic data 

 were fed into a computer model. By 

 altering these economic and biologic 

 variables, the effects of management 

 decisions on the economic returns of 

 the state's bay scallop fishery were 

 examined. Their results are published 

 in A Bioeconomic Model for Deter- 

 mining the Optimal Timing of Harvest 

 for the North Carolina Bay Scallop 

 Fishery, which is available from UNC 

 Sea Grant. The information included 

 in this publication should be a useful 

 guide for development of manage- 

 ment models for other fisheries. 



If you would like a copy, send $2.75 

 to UNC Sea Grant, Box 8605, N.C. 

 State University, Raleigh, N.C. 27695- 

 8605. Ask for publication number 

 UNC-SG-85-25. 



Seafood is the new kid on the block 

 when it comes to restaurants and groc- 

 ery stores. Consequently many sea- 

 food buyers don't know as much about 

 fish and shellfish as they do about 

 pork, beef and chicken. 



To help those new to purchasing 

 seafood, Sea Grant's seafood market- 

 ing specialist Gary Van Housen has 

 written a booklet, A Guide to Purchas- 

 ing and Handling North Carolina Sea- 

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