The fee for the workshop is $5 in ad- 

 vance and $6 at the door. For a com- 

 plete agenda and a registration form, 

 write Jim Murray, UNC Sea Grant, 

 105 1911 Building, North Carolina 

 State University, Raleigh, N.C. 27650 

 or call (919) 737-2454. 



But crabbing isn't just for commer- 

 cial fishermen. Anyone can do it. 



Dipping and Picking: A Guide to 

 Recreational Crabbing, published 

 by the South Carolina Sea Grant 

 Program, describes and illustrates 

 steps for catching (dipping), cooking 

 and cleaning (picking) blue crabs. 



For a free copy of this publication, 

 write UNC Sea Grant, P.O. Box 5001, 

 Raleigh, N.C. 27650-5001. Ask for 

 Dipping and Picking. 



Randy Rouse will re- 

 place Johnny Foster as 

 manager and advisory 

 agent at Sea Grant's 

 Aquaculture Research 

 and Demonstration Cen- 

 ter in Aurora. Rouse, 

 who has been working at the center as 

 a fisheries technician, will assume his 

 new position Feb. 1. Ron Hodson, Sea 

 Grant's associate director, will con- 

 tinue to act as director for the project. 



Rouse received his undergraduate 

 degree in wildlife biology from North 

 Carolina State University. He has also 

 worked for the N.C. Division of 

 Marine Fisheries. Rouse will continue 

 the biweekly aquaculture newspaper 

 columns begun by Foster. He will also 

 be working closely with Hodson to 



construct the center's solar green- 

 house. 



Foster, who has been with the center 

 for eight years, is leaving Sea Grant to 

 open his own business. 



Xhe National Association of State 

 Universities and Land-Grant Colleges 

 (NASULGC) has created a marine di- 

 vision to go along with its agriculture 

 and urban affairs divisions. The 

 marine division will enable member 

 universities to more effectively address 

 national issues pertaining to marine 

 problems. 



UNC Sea Grant Director B.J. 

 Copeland will serve on the member- 

 ship committee within the division. 

 North Carolina State University 

 Chancellor Bruce Poulton will serve on 

 the legislative committee and Dirk 

 Frankenberg, director of the Marine 

 Science Program at the University of 

 North Carolina at Chapel Hill and 

 UNC Sea Grant's coordinator for 

 coastal studies, will serve on the 

 budget committee. 



Mini-grant funds have been awarded 

 to John Maiolo, an East Carolina Uni- 

 versity sociologist, to study the impact 

 of a proposed shortening of the season 

 for harvesting menhaden. Overfishing 

 is a growing problem in the menhaden 

 fishery, and the Atlantic States Marine 

 Fisheries Commission is considering 

 shortening the season as a possible solu- 

 tion. Maiolo will be studying how the 

 shortened season might affect employ- 

 ment, revenues to the menhaden fishing 

 industry and regional economics. 



For four days during 

 March, North Carolina's 

 outdoors will be on dis- 

 play indoors at the 

 Raleigh Civic Center. 

 The 1983 Outdoors 

 North Carolina Expo 

 will be held Thursday, March 24 

 through Sunday, March 27. 



The N.C. Marine Resources Centers 

 will have an exhibit entitled, "More 

 than fish in the sea." There, you will 

 be greeted by a giant Portuguese man- 

 of-war mobile. You will be able to 

 touch a sea urchin, starfish or clam and 

 view sea turtles and octopuses in the 

 aquariums. And, if you want to learn 

 more about the shells found along our 

 beaches, there will also be a shell dis- 

 play and shell-identification game. 



The expo is sponsored by the N.C. 

 Department of Natural Resources and 

 Community Development along with 

 the Raleigh Civic Center, state and 

 federal agencies, citizens groups and 

 the outdoors-recreation industry. 



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. 10, No. 

 2, February, 1983. Dr. B.J. Copeland, 

 director. Neil Caudle, editor. Kathy 

 Hart and Nancy Davis, staff writers. 

 Second-class postage paid at Raleigh, 

 NC 27611. 



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