North Carolina State Library 

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University of North Carolina 

 Sea Grant Program 



NEWSLETTER 



JANUARY, 1975 



1235 Burlington Laboratories 

 NCSU, Raleigh, N. C. 27607 Tel: (919)737-2^5^ 



Winter 

 fishing 



A game of 

 wait-and-see 



Trawlers jam Wanchese harbor 

 while Tarheel fishermen wait for 

 calmer winds. 



Capt. Daniels 



An ear to 

 weather report, 

 eye to the sky 



the 

 an 



Capt. Charles Daniels didn't look one bit wor- 

 ried. He wasn't pacing up and down the dock or 

 checking his watch or even looking nervously to- 

 ward the ocean. In fact, he seemed more than glad 

 just to sit back and talk about everything from 

 football to women's liberation. 



In similar situations, other men would have 

 hurled a curse or two and planted a scowl across 

 their brow. 



The sun had barely peeped over the horizon and 

 already plans he'd made just the day before had to 

 be ditched. Capt. Charles had gotten up early, 

 eager to crank up his trusty vessel, the Mitzi Kay, 

 and nose her out of Wanchese for a three hour trip 

 to the Atlantic's flounder fishing grounds. 



But by 8 o'clock that morning, Capt. Charles 

 knew it would be another day of hanging around 

 the dock, tinkering with his boat, chewing the fat 

 with other captains — and just waiting. 



It was the weather that changed his plans. The 



(See "Trawl," page 3) 



