NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY 

 RALEIGH 



N. & 

 Doc 



UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA 



MAR 2 8 



December, 1977 



105 1911 Building 

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



Sea Grant advisory services 



A little help from your friends 



Last spring Richard Kepley of Carolina Beach ran 

 into some trouble. Kepley had just gotten his com- 

 mercial fishing operation, Seafood Farms Inter- 

 national, underway. His first boat, the 72-foot 

 Theodora, had been completed and was already 

 fishing. But, saddled with a green captain and crew 

 and inadequate rigging, she was having trouble. 



Kepley went to Sea Grant's advisory agent in the 

 Wilmington area, Jim Bahen, for help. Bahen turned 

 to the network of Sea Grant advisory agents across 

 the state and nation. Before long, he had Kepley's 

 operation fixed up with an experienced stern trawling 

 captain and more functional rigging. 



Bahen is one of Sea Grant's 14-member advisory 

 team. As a fisheries agent, his main job is to work 

 with commercial fishermen. But the team also in- 

 cludes people who are experts in the fields of seafood 

 technology and marketing, eel farming, coastal 

 recreation and land use. Like Bahen, they are 

 dedicated to improving the quality of life on North 

 Carolina's coast. They do that by finding out what the 

 coastal public needs and what they can do to help. 



Often that means putting coastal residents in touch 

 with Sea Grant researchers who are studying a par- 

 ticular problem. For instance, Sea Grant advisory 

 (See "Advisory services, " page 2) 



