(category one is the mildest storm and 

 category five is the most fierce). 



Rogers says most of the damage to 

 homes and buildings was caused by 

 Alicia's 110 mph winds, moderate by 

 hurricane standards. He estimates 

 that in small coastal towns as many as 

 75 percent of the buildings received 

 substantial damage. And the damage 

 resulted not just from the strength of 

 the winds, but also from poor construc- 

 tion techniques, he says. 



"Most of the failures that we looked 

 at were due to poor connections be- 

 tween the roof, the rafters and the side 

 walls, and the side wall connections 

 down through the floor beams and 

 joists," he says. "After viewing the 

 damage we learned you can't 

 emphasize enough the importance of 

 good connections in coastal 

 construction." 



Seafood may be on its 

 way to the baby-food 

 shelves. Laura J. Mack- 

 intosh, a master's stu- 

 dent in food science at 

 NCSU, has completed 

 initial research on a pro- 

 ject, funded jointly by Sea Grant and 

 the National Fisheries Institute, that 

 will develop a baby food made out of 

 seafood. 



So far, there are no baby foods that 

 use fish as a main ingredient. But 

 Mackintosh has already developed a 

 meat stick using surimi, or minced fish, 

 made for toddlers from sea trout. 

 Mackintosh says the product proved 

 acceptable in nutritional, textural and 

 sensory qualities. Frank Thomas, ex- 

 tension professor in Food Science at 

 NCSU and Mackintosh's adviser, pre- 

 sented the results of her work at the 

 Atlantic Fisheries Technological Con- 

 ference in August. 



Mackintosh says she is continuing 

 work on fish chowders and meat din- 

 ners for toddlers, and also on the 

 strained version of these products for 

 infants. The final results of her project 

 will be presented next August at the 

 Atlantic Fisheries Technological 

 Conference. 



Frank Thomas, who is also project 

 director for Sea Grant's work at the 

 NCSU Seafood Laboratory in 

 Morehead City, has been chosen as the 

 1984 chairman of the Atlantic 

 Fisheries Technological Conference. 



The conference is an annual open 

 forum on technological progress in the 

 fisheries. 



Joyce Taylor, Sea Grant's marine 

 advisory agent at the lab, will serve as 

 secretary for the conference, which will 

 be held next August in Wilmington. 



©Sea Grant researcher 

 Wayne Skaggs will speak 

 to the annual meeting of 

 the National Associa- 

 tion of State Universi- 

 ties and Land-Grant 

 Colleges (NASULGC) in 

 Washington, D.C., November 15. 

 Skaggs is one of three scientists who 

 will address a symposium for univer- 

 sity and college administrators about 

 the problems of land use near es- 

 tuaries. NASULGC recently created a 

 marine division to go along with its 

 agriculture and urban affairs divisions. 



Skaggs will explain his Sea Grant re- 

 search into agricultural drainage in 

 North Carolina's coastal zone. Skaggs 

 and researcher Wendell Gilliam are 

 developing a mathematical model to 

 predict the amount of drainage into es- 

 tuaries from farmland as a function of 

 land activities and rainfall. 



State Senator Melvin R. Daniels Jr. 

 of Elizabeth City has been elected 

 chairman of the South Atlantic 

 Fishery Management Council. Daniels 

 has served four years as a Council 

 member and was vice-chairman of the 

 Council last year. 



The South Atlantic Fishery 

 Management Council develops and 

 monitors management plans for the 

 fisheries from the territorial waters of 

 North Carolina, South Carolina, 

 Georgia and Florida's east coast out to 

 the 200-mile limit. 



Jerry Schubel, direc- 

 tor of the Marine Sci- 

 ences Research Center at 

 the State University of 

 New York at Stony 

 Brook, will travel to 

 North Carolina Decem- 

 ber 5 and 6 for a series of seminars and 

 lectures. Schubel, an internationally 

 renowned oceanographer, has exten- 

 sively studied pollution problems in 

 the New York and Long Island Har- 

 bors and waste disposal in the New 

 York Bight. 



He will present a seminar at the In- 

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