Coastwatch 



Coastwatch Staff: 



Kathy Hart, Managing Editor 

 Jeannie Faris and Carta B. Burgess, 



Staff Writers and Editors 

 L. Noble, Designer 

 Debra Lynch, Circulation Manager 



The North Carolina Sea Grant College 

 Program is a federal/state program 

 that promotes the wise use of our 

 coastal and marine resources through 

 research, extension and education. It 

 joined the National Sea Grant College 

 Network in 1970 as an institutional 

 program. Six years later, it was desig- 

 nated a Sea Grant College. Today, N.C. 

 Sea Grant supports several research 

 projects, a 12-member extension pro- 

 gram and three communicators. B.J. 

 Copeland is director. The program is 

 funded by the U.S. Department of 

 Commerce's National Oceanic and 

 Atmospheric Administration and the 

 state through the University of North 

 Carolina. 



Coastwatch (ISSN 1068-784X) is pub- 

 lished bimonthly, six times a year, for 

 $12 by the North Carolina Sea Grant 

 College Program, N.C. State Univer- 

 sity, Raleigh, NC 27695-8605. Tele- 

 phone: 919/515-2454. Fax: 919/515- 

 7095. Second-Class Postage paid at 

 Raleigh, N.C. 



POSTMASTER: Send address changes 

 to Coastwatch, N.C. Sea Grant, Box 

 8605, N.C. State University, Raleigh, 

 NC 27695-8605. 



Front cover photo of Fort Macon by 

 Scott D. Taylor. 



Inside front cover photo of Newport 

 River estuary by Scott D. Taylor. 



Printed on recycled paper 



by Highland Press Inc. in f\ 



Fayetteville, N.C. mW 



