THE BACK PAGE 



sponsibility.' 



"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 publications. 

 For more information on any of 

 the projects described , contact the 

 Sea Grant offices in Raleigh 

 (919/737-2454). 



Reporters, students 

 and hurricane experts 

 gathered May 10 and 11 

 in Raleigh for a two-day 

 program, "Hurricane 

 Preparedness: A Com- 

 munity and Family Re- 

 The program, organized 

 by John Sanders, Sea Grant's coastal 

 weather awareness specialist, included 

 a workshop for the media. It drew 

 representatives from television sta- 

 tions, radio stations and newspapers 

 from North Carolina and Virginia. 

 Another training workshop was 

 designed to strengthen the working 

 relationship of government agencies 

 responsible for emergency response. 

 County commissioners, public safety 

 officers, emergency management coor- 

 dinators, building inspectors, city 

 councilmen and other key government 

 officials attended. Workshop partici- 

 pants saw a film on Hurricane Hazel, 

 and heard lectures by several experts, 

 including Neil Frank, director of the 

 National Hurricane Center. 



During the program, students from 

 the Science Club of Pamlico Junior 

 High School got some practice in 

 hurricane evacuation. At the American 

 Red Cross headquarters, they set up 

 an emergency shelter, complete with 

 survival boxes and hurricane-safety 

 checklists. The students even spent the 

 night in the shelter — with Sanders and 

 their teachers — to simulate "braving 

 the storm." 



What do you do if a hurricane 

 warning is given for your area? Are 

 you prepared to evacuate? Do you 



know how to safeguard your house and 

 property during evacuation? For 

 answers to these questions and many 

 more, plan to visit the three N.C. 

 Marine Resources Centers for 

 Hurricane Awareness Week, the first 

 week of August. 



The week-long program will feature 

 films, exhibits and lectures on 

 hurricane preparedness and storm- 

 resistant construction. There will even 

 be folk stories for children. Each of the 

 centers will also have a news media 

 workshop on emergency management 

 and hurricane preparedness. John San- 

 ders, Sea Grant's coastal weather 

 awareness specialist, will visit each of 

 the centers during the week, to par- 

 ticipate in several programs and lec- 

 tures. 



For more information on the 

 program and on other activities at the 

 centers this summer, write: N.C. 

 Marine Resources Center/Roanoke 

 Island, P.O. Box 967, Airport Road, 

 Manteo, N.C. 27945; N.C. Marine 

 Resources Center/Bogue Banks, 

 Atlantic Beach, N.C. 28512; N.C. 

 Marine Resources Center/Fort Fisher, 

 Kure Beach, N.C. 28449. 



Crabs steer clear of a 

 crud-clogged crab pot. 

 And cleaning marine 

 growth from pots is a 

 chore no crabber looks 

 forward to. A new anti- 

 fouling paint, however, 

 may work where other products have 

 failed. 



Bob Hines, a Sea Grant marine ad- 

 visory agent at Bogue Banks, will test 

 the anti-fouling paint this summer in a 

 Sea Grant mini-grant project. Hines 

 plans to set out 40 crab pots, compar- 

 ing the fouling rates of treated and un- 

 treated vinyl-coated and galvanized 

 pots. Catch records will also be kept, 

 to see which pots attract the most 

 crabs. 



Hines says a Maryland Sea Grant 

 study indicated that the anti-fouling 

 paint significantly reduced fouling and 

 extended crab pot life. The fouling rate 

 of the painted pot was 83 percent less 



than the vinyl-coated pots, which most 

 crabbers in North Carolina use. Catch 

 figures also indicated that the pots 

 treated with the anti-fouling paint, 

 which has tributyl tin oxide as an ac- 

 tive ingredient, caught more crabs. 

 Hines wants to see if he can get the 

 same results in North Carolina. 



Part of the mini-grant project will 

 include demonstrations of the new 

 product. Chester Cooper, a Columbia 

 crab pot manufacturer who is using the 

 paint, will talk to the crabbers about 

 the paint and will treat some of the 

 pots brought to the meetings. The 

 demonstrations will be held in Pamlico 

 and Carteret counties at the end of 

 June. For more information, contact 

 Bob Hines or Larry Giardina at the 

 N. C. Marine Resources Center at 

 Bogue Banks. Their number is (919) 

 726-0125. 



After serving for one 

 year as president-elect of 

 the Sea Grant Associa- 

 tion, UNC Sea Grant 

 Director B. J. Copeland 

 will assume the associa- 

 tion's presidency during 

 Sea Grant Week in Washington, D.C., 

 July 19-22. Copeland succeeds Feenan 

 Jennings, director of Texas A&M Sea 

 Grant. The Sea Grant Association 

 unites the numerous state Sea Grant 

 programs along with others to create a 

 strong national voice on issues involv- 

 ing marine problems. 



Faculty members from six North 

 Carolina universities have asked for a 

 total of $4.2 million to conduct Sea 

 Grant research during 1983 and 1984. 



Forty-four proposals, submitted in 

 May, now face reviews at four levels. 

 Proposals deemed worthy by reviewers 

 will be included in UNC Sea Grant's 

 funding proposal to the Office of Sea 

 Grant in Washington, D. C. 



Dirk Frankenberg, director of the 

 Marine Science Program at the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina at Chapel 

 Hill, has been named coordinator of 

 UNC Sea Grant's coastal studies sec- 



