Would a mountain 

 trout raised in coastal 

 waters taste as sweet? 

 According to Sea Grant 

 staff at the Aquaculture 

 Demonstration Project 

 in Aurora, the answer is 

 yes. In an experiment begun last 

 December, Johnny Foster and Randy 

 Rouse, both of the project, stocked 

 two '/2-inch mesh cages with 870 moun- 

 tain trout weighing about 2.5 ounces 

 and measuring six inches long each. 

 Foster and Rouse hung the cages from 

 their pier in South Creek, which runs 

 by the Aurora lab. 



Melvin Huish, an NCSU zoologist 

 who has been conducting Sea Grant 

 research at the Aurora site, helped the 

 project secure the young trout, which 

 were provided by the U.S. Fish and 

 Wildlife Service. 



During a fish kill in the Pamlico 

 River in late December, 429 of the 

 trout died. Though the exact cause of 

 the kill has not been determined, 

 fisheries experts believe either a virus 

 or an algae bloom triggered the kill, 

 Foster says. 



The remaining fish were fed a com- 

 mercial trout feed and 420 trout were 

 harvested in late May. The average 

 weight then was 9.3 ounces and the 

 length 10 inches, the normal har- 

 vesting size for mountain trout. And 

 the flavor, Foster says, was excellent. 



More work is planned to see if trout 

 could be raised commercially in coastal 

 North Carolina. 



It takes careful plan- 

 ning to help any ex- 

 panding industry avoid 

 growing pains. That's 

 why Sam Thomas and 

 Dave Hill are working 

 on some flexible building 

 designs for seafood processing houses. 



Thomas and Hill, both with Sea 

 Grant advisory services at the NCSU 

 Seafood Laboratory, are designing a 

 multi-use building for the Wanchese 

 Harbor Seafood Industrial Park. They 

 have been working with Bruce 

 Strickland of the Department of Com- 

 merce and Robert Williams of the 

 North Carolina Seafood Industrial 

 Park Authority on the building plans. 

 Thomas says the basic building can 

 start as a small fish house and grow 

 with the owner's business into a large 

 seafood processing plant. Plans also 

 allow for flexibility in the transition 

 from one owner to another, or from one 

 type of processing business to another. 



And, while Thomas and Hill spent 

 some time at the drawing board, their 

 colleague at the lab, Joyce Taylor, 

 took her work on the road. Some dozen 

 workshops later, groups from across 

 the Carolinas had gotten some help 

 with seafood preparation and nutri- 

 tion, plus a taste of such fare as fish- 

 flake salad and baked clams. Frank 

 Thomas, project director at the lab, 

 chimed in with advice on buying and 

 cleaning fresh seafood. 



Albemarle Sound 

 Trends and Manage- 

 ment is the latest in Sea 

 Grant's series of 

 technical reports. The 

 report is the proceedings 

 of a conference held 

 March 3 at the College of Albemarle in 

 Elizabeth City. 



The conference, which attracted 

 about 150 participants, invited scien- 

 tists and leaders to review the sound's 

 water-quality problems and to assess 

 current management alternatives. It 

 was sponsored by the UNC Water 

 Resources Research Institute and Sea 

 Grant. For a copy of the proceedings, 

 write UNC Sea Grant. Ask for publica- 

 tion UNC-SG-82-02. 



Coastwatch is published monthly 

 except July and December by the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina Sea Grant 

 College Program, 105 1911 Building, 

 North Carolina State University, 

 Raleigh, NC 27650-5001. Vol. 9, No. 8, 

 September, 1982. Dr. B.J. Copeland, 

 director. Neil Caudle, editor. Kathy 

 Hart and Cassie Griffin, staff writers. 

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