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In addition, Sea Grant advisory specialists are 

 proposing to continue serving commercial and 

 sports fishermen, seafood processors and others 

 who can put research results to work. 



Engineering advisory services investigators are 

 seeking support for ongoing engineering assist- 

 ance to the seafood industry and coastal recreation. 



Continuing education project leaders plan .to 

 continue assisting commercial fishermen develop 

 improved marketing, expanded fishing options and 

 more productive fishing. Another goal is to pro- 

 vide services to all users of marine resources. 



The science of seafood 



Getting the most out of the catch — whether by 

 making new products from "trash" fish or by re- 

 ducing the threat of disease and contaminants in 

 seafood — is the business of seafood scientists. 



For 1975-76, seafood researchers are asking for 

 support to continue developing new products from 

 fish and crab meat which has been mechanically 

 deboned or separated. They plan to investigate 

 changes in fish tissue resulting from mechanical 

 deboning and to develop less wasteful ways to 

 process fish tissue. 



Another part of their research plan is to study 

 the deterioration of crab meat quality during 

 frozen storage and determine what is needed for a 

 good system of freezing crab meat. They also aim 

 to seek ways to improve crab meat shelf life and 

 sanitation. A series of publications detailing their 

 research results which should be of immediate 

 assistance to the industry is proposed. 



Other scientists are seeking support to survey 

 seafoods for bacteria, such as salmonella and Clos- 

 tridium, and trace metals, such as copper, mer- 

 cury and cadmium, which can cause sickness and 

 death. As part of their research, they will experi- 



ment to find ways to control bacteria and heavy 

 metals during processing. 



Land-use specialist 

 joins Sea Grant staff 



Dr. Simon Baker, whose study of aerial and 

 space photography as a guide for land-use planning 

 has attracted international attention, joined the 

 UNC Sea Grant Program staff July 1. 



He is serving as a Sea Grant 

 advisory agent dealing specifi- 

 cally with land-use problems 

 in North Carolina. He will be 

 working closely with local 

 communities and with state 

 and county governments as 

 they develop and put land-use 

 planning into action. 



In addition, Baker is con- 

 tinuing to study the use of re- Baker 

 mote sensing in land management and is affiliated 

 with the North Carolina State University School of 

 Design in landscape architecture. 



Baker comes to North Carolina from Florida 

 Atlantic University where he has been associate 

 professor of geography since 1968. 



The new Sea Grant advisory agent was a geog- 

 rapher with the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 from 1966-68. During that time he conducted re- 

 search and published articles relating to the new 

 technology of remote sensing and its potential in 

 gathering land- use and agricultural information. 

 Remote sensing involves the use of aerial photo- 

 graphs and images of the earth transmitted from 

 satellites and Skylab. 



Working with the Photographic Survey Cor- 

 poration of Toronto, Baker was employed in Ceylon 

 in 1957-58 as the land-use member of a team of 

 specialists studying the resources of a river basin. 



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