Sumner Midgett 

 Camden, N.C. 



27921 

 336-4790 



Hughes Tillet 

 P.O. Box 272 

 Wanchese, N.C. 



27981 

 473-3937 



can understand the fisherman's needs and problems. 



But advisory services is more than handing out a 

 jbook or holding a meeting. As Midgett, Tillet and Mc- 

 Gee practice it, advisory services is also getting up to 

 their elbows in work — either by helping a fisherman 

 lequip his boat with improved gear or testing new op- 

 tions in fishing. For example, the advisory agents are 

 [trying to iron the kinks out of growing clams and 

 oysters in shallow sound waters. If they are successful, 

 [people living near these shallow waters could possibly 



I garden these shellfish for their own consumption and 

 for sale. 

 The advisory agents are available to try to help on 

 just about any problem relating to fishing. And if you 

 | think you've got a good idea for a new way to do some- 

 thing, they're eager to hear it too. 



Seafood technology 



If your living depends on seafood — either harvesting, 

 processing, shipping or serving it — you just might like 

 to know the staff at the Sea Grant Seafood Laboratory 

 in Morehead City. 



Ted Miller, Dave Hill and Skipper Crow are Sea 

 Grant advisory agents bent on improving seafood qual- 

 ity. Better tasting and longer-lasting seafood, they rea- 

 son, means more income for everyone from fishermen 

 to retailer — and happier consumers. 



Miller, Hill and Crow, along with Frank Thomas from 

 the NCSU food science department in Raleigh, have al- 

 ready assisted many Tarheel blue crab processing plants 

 by providing plans for more efficient, sanitary opera- 

 tions. They continue working with the blue crab indus- 

 try — and with finfish processors — to help both meet 

 increasingly stringent sanitation requirements. 



When they're not in the field, Miller, Thomas, Hill 

 and Crow might be found in the lab testing more reli- 

 able methods of handling and storing seafoods for better 

 quality and longer life, developing new products from 



Ted Miller 

 Dave Hill 

 Skipper Crow 



P.O. Box 51 

 Morehead City, 

 N.C. 28557 

 726-7341 



Bill Rickards Walt Jones 



UNC Sea Grant Program John Foster 

 1235 Burlington Labora- 



tories P.O. Box 2494 



N.C. State University New Bern - 28560 



Raleigh, N.C. 27607 633-0414 



737-2454 



Eel farming 



Walt Jones, John Foster and Bill Rickards are en- 

 gaged in a pretty unusual project: They're trying to see 

 if you can farm eels — raise them from tiny elvers to 

 marketable size in enclosed ponds — in coastal North 

 Carolina. They've got an experimental eel farm where 

 right now thousands of the squirmy fish are growing. 

 Eels, you see, are a hot export item for European mar- 

 kets and are in demand as sport fishing bait in this 

 country. 



But while Jones, Foster and Rickards are engrossed 

 in all aspects of raising eels — including food prepara- 

 tion, elver harvesting, disease analysis and treatment 

 and pond construction — they don't just want to sit on 

 their findings. Their eel farm in New Bern is open as a 

 demonstration unit for anyone who might be interested 

 in eel farming — and they're eager to share what they've 

 learned. 



Jones and Foster are headquartered at the New Bern 

 demonstration farm. Rickards is at the Sea Grant office 

 in Raleigh, where he doubles as assistant program direc- 

 tor. They're all open to questions. 



"trash" fish, or testing new ways to detect seafood 

 deterioration. 



Questions about harvesting wild eels should be di- 

 rected to Skipper Crow. He can help with building 

 traps, baiting, fishing and marketing eels from Carolina 

 waters. 



