stitute for Coastal and Marine 

 Resources at East Carolina Univer- 

 sity December 5, then travel to 

 Raleigh where he will meet informally 

 that evening with North Carolina 

 State University students. On Decem- 

 ber 6, Schubel will speak to an NCSU 

 interdisciplinary "Oceans" class, 

 taught by Lundie Spence, Sea Grant's 

 education specialist. 



If you would like to arrange a time 

 to talk with Schubel, contact the Sea 

 Grant office in Raleigh at 737-2454. 



If you own beach- 

 front property that is 

 subject to erosion, you're 

 probably hesitant to 

 build on it. But Walter 

 Clark, Sea Grant's coast- 

 al law specialist, says 

 your land may still be worth 

 something. 



In its 1983 session, the North 

 Carolina General Assembly passed a 

 law that allows a tax credit for land do- 

 nated to the state, a local government 

 or to a conservation organization. 

 Clark says you'll be giving yourself a 

 tax credit and providing the public 

 with access to natural resources. 



Clark says the land must be in 

 North Carolina and must be useful for 

 public beach use, public access to 

 public waters or trails, fish and wildlife 

 conservation or similar land- 

 conservation purposes. The N.C. 

 Department of Natural Resources and 

 Community Development will deter- 

 mine if your property is suitable for 

 those uses. 



The amount of the tax credit is 

 limited to 25 percent of the value of 

 the donated land, up to a $5,000 max- 

 imum, says Clark. For more informa- 

 tion, contact Clark at UNC Sea Grant, 

 105 1911 Building, North Carolina 

 State University, Raleigh, N.C. 27650. 



It looks like a minia- 

 ture crab pot, but it's 

 really a shrimp trap. Jim 

 Bahen, the Sea Grant 

 marine advisory service 

 agent at Ft. Fisher, is ex- 

 perimenting with the 

 trap to see how well it works. The 

 traps have been used along the Gulf 

 Coast and in Maine, but never in 

 North Carolina. 



The trap is a 16-inch cube made of 

 fine wire mesh. It has two side open- 

 ings, a central bait well and two pass- 

 ages to the main body of the trap. 



Bahen has been experimenting with 

 different baits — fish meal, commercial 

 catfood, cornmeal and fish pellets — to 

 see which works best. He's learned 

 that a combination of catfood and fish 

 meal attracts the most shrimp. Bahen 

 estimates the trap will catch up to two 

 pounds of shrimp per night. And he 

 says the trap seems to catch more 

 brown shrimp than white shrimp. 



Like crab pots, the traps are placed 

 in shallow water, away from areas with 

 a strong tidal flow. By using the traps, 

 fishermen could fish areas they are un- 

 able to reach with trawls. 



But Bahen cautions that no rules 

 have been established and any fisher- 

 men wishing to purchase a trap should 



check with his local fisheries enforce- 

 ment officer. 



Leon Abbas, Sea 

 Grant's marine recrea- 

 tion specialist, has writ- 

 ten a publication to help 

 marina operators man- 

 age their fuel inven- 

 tories. The booklet offers 

 a simple procedure to determine how 

 much fuel to order and when to order 

 it. 



For a copy of How to Manage 

 Your Marina's Fuel Inventory, 

 write UNC Sea Grant, 105 1911 

 Building, North Carolina State Uni- 

 versity, Raleigh, N.C. 27650. Ask for 

 UNC-SG-83-04. 



Sea Grant in North Carolina, 

 1981-1982, by Neil Caudle, Kathy 

 Hart and Nancy Davis, is a biennial 

 report of Sea Grant research, educa- 

 tion and advisory service activities. 

 For a free copy of the 46-page report, 

 write UNC Sea Grant. Ask for UNC- 

 SG-83-05. 



Coastwatch is published monthly 

 except July and December by the Uni- 

 versity of North Carolina Sea Grant 

 College Program, 105 1911 Building, 

 Raleigh, NC 27650-5001. Vol. 10, No. 

 10, November/December 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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