North Carolina State Library 

 Raleigh 



N. C. 



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University of North Carolina 

 Sea Grant Program 



NEWSLETTER 



May, 1974 



1235 Burlington Laboratories 

 NCSU, Raleigh, N.C. 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2U5U 



Sea Grant serves you: 



New morsels 

 for your 

 seafood platter 



Tuna seems to show up everywhere. The hungri- 

 est, dirtiest construction worker gobbles down a 

 couple of tuna sandwiches for lunch. And tuna 

 salad is an old standby at ladies' dainty teas. 



But watch out, tuna. It's possible that before 

 long, wives will pack amberjack sandwiches for 

 hubby's lunch and ladies will top off the lettuce 

 with something called white grunt salad. Restau- 

 rants may feature dishes like triggerfish parmesan 

 and barracuda casserole. 



Amberjack, white grunt and barracuda — all 

 caught by fishermen off North Carolina's coast 

 for years. "Trash fish" they called them — then 

 hurled a curse and dumped them back. 



But with the world's stomach growling for pro- 

 tein and with an eye toward spurring the economy 

 of deprived coastal areas, folks began wondering 

 about turning "trash" fish into useful foods. 



They also put their minds to improving the 

 harvesting, handling and processing of seafoods 

 people have eaten for centuries. But making more 

 of a catch meant setting up lines of communication 

 between the men who catch and process seafoods 

 and engineers and scientists who test and design 

 new methods. 



That's where Sea Grant stepped in. Sea Grant 

 is a University of North Carolina program that 

 gets money from the U. S. Department of Com- 



merce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- 

 ministration (NOAA) and the N. C. Department of 

 Administration. Part of Sea Grant funds support 

 research aimed at developing coastal and marine 

 resources in an environmentally sound fashion. 



But Sea Grant is equally anxious to get research 

 results to people who can profit from them. That 

 includes everyone from the guy setting the nets to 

 the businessman eating crabcake. For that reason 

 a portion of Sea Grant funds are channeled into 

 something called "advisory services." The men 

 and women in advisory services are messengers 

 between the lab and the coastal community. Their 

 purpose is to translate research findings into infor- 

 mation that can be put to use. In turn they take 

 questions posed by coastal residents back to the 

 lab for answers. 



In North Carolina, Sea Grant advisory services 

 does three jobs. Engineering advisory services 

 deals with gear, helping fishermen and shrimpers 

 with harvesting and handling the catch on board. 

 Seafood science and technology follows the catch 

 from dock to consumers. And a continuing educa- 

 tion program keeps commercial fishermen up to 

 date on the latest equipment, how to use it and 

 running a business. 



In the future Sea Grant advisory services aims 



(See "Better Use," page 3) 



