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Rakin' in the Clams 



For most people, vacations to the beach are about fresh seafood 

 and sunshine, enjoying good meals and getting their feet wet. 

 They can do this now on the Outer Banks and experience a 

 centuries-old tradition. They can clam. For years, this activity 

 has been closed to visitors who lack the ways and means of 

 harvesting clams. But this season, for a fee, tourists can rake 

 their own dinners from the private clam beds at Hatteras 

 Village Aqua Farm about a mile north of Hatteras. Coastwatch 

 staff writer Jeannie Faris takes you there and introduces you to 

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Southern Fried and Sanctified 



This issue of Coastwatch takes a look at the legendary seafood 

 spot of Calabash, where heaping servings of oysters, shrimp, 

 clams, scallops and fish are dredged in flour and fried a golden 

 brown. Staff writer Rachel Wharton explains how the town's 

 2-square-mile dinner district is home to more than 20 restau- 

 rants that have retained their recipes, charm and '50s-style 

 facades over the years. But like other Tar Heel coastal towns, 

 Calabash is dealing with many growth-related problems. ... 1 



Value-Added Seafood 



More and more consumers are scanning supermarket aisles for 

 nutritional meals that can go from oven to table in less than 20 

 minutes. Food processors are satisfying these needs with a 

 variety of frozen and ready-to-eat items. Not to be left out, the 

 seafood processing industry is also developing quick, easy, 

 nutritional entrees and side dishes. Called value-added seafood, 

 the items are turning up in frozen food cases, in fresh seafood 

 counters and among the canned meats and soups. Coastwatch 

 writer Kathy Hart introduces readers to the concept of value- 

 added seafood and to a North Carolina processor who is 

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A Historian's Coast: 



Rachel Carson At Bird Shoal 



It's no secret that biologist and author Rachel Carson found 

 inspiration in the songs of birds, in the ebb of the ocean. But 

 North Carolinians might be surprised at the extent to 

 which our state's marshes and shoals guided and inspired her. 

 Coastwatch history columnist David Cecelski explores how 

 Carson's visits to our coast may have shaped this sensitive, 

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N.C. DOCUMENTS 

 CLEARINGHOUSE 



JUN 25 1996 



N.C. STATE LIBRARY 

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