residents had only about six to eight 

 hours of advance warning. "For- 

 tunately it was not of greater intensity. 

 It's the type of storm you basically ride 

 out because you don't have time to 

 prepare for it." 



Hughes Tillett, Sea Grant's marine 

 advisory agent in Manteo, plans to 

 take disability retirement December 1. 

 Tillett became Sea Grant's second 

 marine advisory agent when he joined 

 the program in 1973. He has been in- 

 strumental in building a strong commer- 

 cial fishing program, advising fishermen 

 of changes in gear and fishing techni- 

 ques. Sea Grant Director B. J. 

 Copeland says he hopes Tillett's dis- 

 ability retirement is temporary and 

 Tillett can return to the job when his 

 recovery is complete. 



UNC Sea Grant is 

 bringing the classroom to 

 the fishermen. Sea Grant 

 has invited the Fisheries 

 Mobile Unit from the 

 Massachusetts Maritime 

 Academy, a school for 

 seamen, to conduct three day-long 

 workshops for fishermen along the 

 coast. 



The first workshop, co-sponsored by 

 the Southport-Brunswick Library, will 

 be held Dec. 3 at the library. This 

 workshop will focus on fish finders — 

 how they work and which kinds to use. 

 To register, call the Sea Grant office at 

 Ft. Fisher (458-5498). 



The next day the mobile unit travels 



to Beaufort for a Dec. 4 workshop at the 

 District Courthouse. This workshop, a 

 survey of electronics, will cover marine 

 radar, Loran C, fish-finders and more. 

 To register, contact the Sea Grant office 

 at Bogue Banks (726-0125). 



The final workshop will be held Dec. 6 

 at the Seafood Industrial Park in 

 Wanchese. It too will focus on elec- 

 tronics. To register, contact the Sea 

 Grant office in Manteo (473-3937). 



If you can't attend the workshops, 

 you are still welcome to tour the mobile 

 unit, view the video tapes and ask 

 questions. 



Xhe new writer in Sea Grant's com- 

 munications office is Nancy Davis. She 

 will join Neil Caudle and Kathy Hart as 

 a staff writer for Coastwatch, and will 

 also help produce Sea Grant news 

 releases, brochures and public service 

 announcements. Davis, a graduate of 

 the UNC School of Journalism, comes to 

 Sea Grant from The Raleigh Times. 

 She replaces Cassie Griffin, who 

 resigned in September to accept a job in 

 the public relations office of a computer 

 software company in Cary, N. C. 



Frank Thomas, project director for 

 Sea Grant's Seafood Laboratory in 

 Morehead City and a member of the 

 North Carolina State University 

 Department of Food Science, has been 

 given the Earl P. McFee Award for ex- 

 cellence in the field of fishery 

 technology. Thomas received the award 

 during a September meeting of the 

 Atlantic Fisheries Technological Con- 

 ference in Portland, Maine. 



Xhis New Year's some 

 coastal residents will be 

 turning old Christmas 

 trees into new dunes. If 

 you'd like to join them, 

 attend the third annual 

 dune-repair and 

 Christmas-tree-recycling program 

 January 2. Bring only a natural tree, 

 stripped of ornament, to the N. C. 

 Marine Resources Center at Ft. Fisher 

 for the 2:30 p.m. program. 



Spencer Rogers, UNC Sea Grant's 

 coastal engineering specialist, will lead 

 the program along with help from the 

 staff of the Marine Resources Center. 

 Participants will take their trees to the 

 Ft. Fisher beachfront to repair breaches 

 in the dunes caused by pedestrian and 

 vehicle traffic. Rogers says trees placed- 

 in the worn areas help trap and hold sand 

 in their branches — creating a new dune. 



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. 10, 

 November/December, 1982. Dr. B.J. 

 Copeland, director. Neil Caudle, editor. 

 Kathy Hart and Nancy Davis, staff 

 writers. Second-class postage paid at 

 Raleigh, NC 27611. 



COASTWATCH 



105 1911 Building 



North Carolina State University 



Raleigh. NC 27650 



Second-class postage paid 

 at Raleigh, NC 27611 

 (ISSN 0161-8369) 



