North Carolina State Library 

 Raleigh 



University of North Carolina 

 Sea Grant Program 



NEWSLETTER 



N. C. 

 oc. 



DECEMBER, 1974 



1235 Burlington Laboratories 

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



Carteret women test 

 new seafood uses at 

 Morehead City lab. 



Cutting 



down 



on wasted 



seafoods 



Mrs. Elmore Lawton was up to her elbows in a vat of slimy clams. 

 Through rows of glass beakers and bottles of chemicals, she could 

 see Mrs. Elsie Farlee across the room scrubbing clam shells. In the 

 far corner, Mrs. Frances Turbyfill flipped shrimp toasties in and 

 out of a frying pan. 



Mrs. Lawton, Mrs. Farlee, Mrs. Turbyfill and the nine other 

 women in the room weren't competing in a seafood cooking contest. 

 In fact, they seemed to be more than at home working on the black- 

 topped lab counters and dodging the scientific equipment at the 

 Seafood Laboratory in Morehead City, a lab jointly supported by 

 UNC Sea Grant and the North Carolina State University Depart- 

 ment of Food Science. 



Some of the women have been part of this setting once each month 

 for almost two years. Called the Nutrition Leaders Advisory Com- 

 mittee, the dozen Carteret County women are contributing a special 

 brand of expertise to seafood research. Each month they pitch in to 

 help seafood scientists grapple with a number one problem: Reduc- 

 ing the waste of fish. 



It's no secret. A lot of meat — protein that could be feeding hungry 

 people today — is lost by commercial and sport fishermen. Com- 

 (See "Carteret," Page 3 ) 



