THE BACK PAGE 



"The Back Page" is an update on Sea 

 Grant activities — on research, marine 

 education and advisory services. It's 

 also a good place to find out about 

 meetings, workshops and new publi- 

 cations. For more information on any 

 of the projects described, contact the 

 Sea Grant offices in Raleigh (919/737- 

 2454). For copies of publications, 

 write UNC Sea Grant, NCSU, Box 

 8605, Raleigh, N.C. 27695-8605. 



The White House 

 lawn must have been 

 impeccable July 26 or 

 someone from North 

 Carolina would have no- 

 ticed. That's when 

 Beach Sweep coordina- 

 tors went to Washington to receive an 

 award for last year's cleanup. 



In June, the Take Pride in America 

 awards program named North Caro- 

 lina's Beach Sweep '87 a national 

 winner. 



Coordinators for last year's cleanup 

 were UNC Sea Grant, the N.C. Divi- 

 sion of Coastal Management, the 

 Office of Marine Affairs and the N.C. 

 Division of Parks and Recreation. 

 Representatives attended the national 

 awards ceremony July 26 on the south 

 lawn of the White House. 



In January, Beach Sweep '87 placed 

 first in the government agencies cate- 

 gory of North Carolina's Take Pride in 

 America Awards and became eligible 

 for the national competition. 



Take Pride in America is a national 

 public awareness campaign to pro- 

 mote wise use of public lands and re- 

 sources. Its awards program was 

 established to recognize outstanding 

 resource stewardship projects and 

 programs. This year, 540 award nomi- 

 nations were received from 48 states 

 and the District of Columbia. 



Beach Sweep '87 brought more than 

 1,000 people together Sept. 19 for the 

 North Carolina's largest coastal 

 cleanup. 



Participants collected more than 14 

 tons of trash during the three-hour 

 event and recorded each piece on data 



cards. The cleanup's success spurred 

 organizers to plan Beach Sweep '88, 

 which will be Sept. 24. 



The N.C. Aquaculture 

 Development Confer- 

 ence will be held Nov. 

 1-2 at the Sheraton Hotel 

 in Greenville. 



The two-day confer- 

 ence will attract re- 

 searchers as well as leaders in the 

 aquaculture industry. Conference top- 

 ics include: an overview of the indus- 

 try and its economic potential for the 

 state; culture techniques for potential 

 aquaculture species; research; and 

 marketing. Discussion will center on 

 catfish, crawfish, shrimp, hybrid 

 striped bass, mountain trout and tila- 

 pia. Participants also will tour aquacul- 

 ture sites in Pitt County. 



Sea Grant Director B.J. Copeland 

 will lead a panel on future research 

 needs for the aquaculture industry. 

 And Associate Sea Grant Director Ron 

 Hodson will describe the potential for 

 the hybrid striped bass. 



Other featured speakers for the con- 

 ference include Richard Lord of New 

 York's Fulton Fish Market, the largest 

 wholesale seafood market in the 

 United States; Larry Delabretonne, a 

 Louisiana State University extension 

 specialist on crawfish production; and 

 Peter Redmayne, editor of Seafood 

 Leader magazine. 



The conference is sponsored by the 

 N.C. Chapter of the Soil and Water 

 Conservation Society, N.C. Agribusi- 

 ness Council, N.C. Small Business and 

 Technology Center, N.C. State Uni- 

 versity College of Agriculture and Life 

 Sciences and the N.C. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



To register, contact Rodney John- 

 son, N.C. Aquaculture Development 

 Conference, 412 W. Queen St., Eden- 

 ton, N.C. 27932. Or call 919/482-7437. 



Governor James Martin has estab- 

 lished a task force to make recom- 

 mendations for boosting the state's 

 fledgling aquaculture industry. He has 



appointed several experts from Sea 

 Grant to serve on committees for the 

 task force. 



Sea Grant Director B.J. Copeland is 

 chairman of a committee on aquacul- 

 ture education, research and technol- 

 ogy. Walter Clark, Sea Grant's coastal 

 law specialist, will help to analyze the 

 legal issues surrounding the new 

 industry. 



Sea Grant marketing specialist Skip 

 Kemp and economic specialist Jim 

 Easley are on a committee to assess the 

 financial issues of aquaculture in the 

 state. 



And seafood specialist Frank 

 Thomas will help analyze the produc- 

 tion and processing aspects of the 

 aquaculture industry. 



The task force was established to 

 analyze an aquaculture plan recom- 

 mended by the N.C. Marine Science 

 Council last year. 



Walter Clark, Sea 

 Grant's coastal law spe- 

 cialist, recently received 

 an Outstanding Extension 

 Service Award from 

 North Carolina State 

 University. He and nine 

 others were selected from more than 

 800 eligible extension specialists in the 

 state. 



Jim Murray, director of Sea Grant's 

 marine advisory service, nominated 

 Clark for his work with several suc- 

 cessful projects in the past year. 



In response to numerous requests 

 for legal information regarding beach 

 property, Clark wrote a concise guide- 

 book titled "Your Place at the Beach: A 

 Buyer's Guide to Vacation Real Esate." 

 It was published in conjuction with the 

 N.C. Real Estate Commission and dis- 

 tributed to more than 20,000 people. 



Clark also teamed up with Dan 

 McLawhorn, an attorney with the 

 N.C. Attorney General's office, to 

 devise a management plan for water 

 use in the state's estuaries. This work 

 led to a project with the Albemarle- 

 Pamlico Estuarine Study Program that 



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