THE BACK PAGE 



"The Back Page" is an update 

 on Sea Grant activities — on 

 research, marine education and 

 advisory services. It's also a good 

 place to find out about meetings, 

 workshops and new publications. 

 For more information on any of 

 the projects described, contact the 

 Sea Grant offices in Raleigh 

 (919/737-2454). 



Bringing up the 

 anchor of the Monitor, 

 seashell collecting from a 

 diver's perspective, 

 federal and state laws on 

 wreck diving and salvag- 

 ing, diving in the Carib- 

 bean and Hawaii. You'll find out 

 about all that and more at SEAS '84. 

 It's the Southeast Atlantic States Div- 

 ing Conference and Underwater Film 

 Festival. 



The three-day conference will be 

 held February 24 through 26 at the 

 Radisson Hotel in Raleigh. Jim 

 Murray, director of Sea Grant's 

 Marine Advisory Service, says the con- 

 ference is a weekend of workshops, ex- 

 hibits and films. You'll meet a panel of 

 local and national diving experts who 

 will tell you about everything from the 

 shipwrecks off the North Carolina 

 coast to underwater photography. 

 You'll be able to take a look at all the 

 latest in diving gear, and if you're a 

 photographer, you can enter a 

 photography contest. 



Murray says the conference is 

 geared toward the sports diver and 

 those interested in the marine sciences. 



The event is sponsored by UNC Sea 

 Grant, the N.C. Marine Education 

 and Resources Foundation, the N.C. 

 Office of Marine Affairs, and the N.C. 

 Wreck Divers Association. 



If you register before February 10, 

 the cost is $15 for the workshop, $5 for 

 the social, $6 for the film festival, and 

 $10 for the banquet, or $36 for the en- 

 tire weekend. 



For more information about 

 registration or about the photography 



contest, contact Jim Murray at (919) 

 737-2454 or Doug Young at (919) 733- 

 2290. 



The National Es- 

 tuarine Research Sym- 

 posium will be held 

 March 13 through 15 at 

 the Marriott Hotel in 

 Raleigh. The sym- 

 posium, sponsored by 

 Sea Grant and National Marine 

 Fisheries Service, will explore the 

 future research needs of our nation's 

 estuaries. 



During the symposium, prominent 

 scientists from across the nation will 

 tackle five subject areas: the impact of 

 water management on estuarine 

 productivity, the impact of sediment 

 management on estuarine produc- 

 tivity, the impact of nutrients and 

 chemicals on estuaries, the coupling of 

 primary and secondary productivity in 

 estuaries, and fisheries habitats. 



From the papers presented and dis- 

 cussions held, a committee headed by 

 UNC Sea Grant Director B.J. 

 Copeland will develop a national 

 strategy for estuarine research that 

 will provide a sound scientific base for 

 future management. 



To register for the three-day sym- 

 posium, send $40 to UNC Sea Grant, 

 105 1911 Building, North Carolina 

 State University, Box 8605, Raleigh, 

 N.C. 27695-8605. Make checks 

 payable to: UNC Sea Grant. The 

 registration deadline is March 1. 



Spencer Rogers, Sea 

 Grant's coastal engineer- 

 ing specialist at Ft. 

 Fisher, is looking for 

 someone with property 

 on an estuarine shore- 

 line who can help him 

 test a new erosion-control method. 



Rogers says that the device, which is 

 designed for use on the shores of 

 sounds or bays, combines a small 

 wooden breakwater with protective 



plantings of marsh grasses. Rogers 

 wants to find one property owner who 

 will be willing to pay construction 

 costs and cooperate with the research. 

 Rogers says the cost of the system will 

 be half to two-thirds the cost of a 

 bulkhead. 



"Like most low-cost means of ero- 

 sion control, there are no guarantees," 

 Rogers says. "But this system may be 

 effective in areas with up to a three- 

 foot wave, and a bottom that drops 

 one to two feet in the first one- 

 hundred." 



If you would like to talk with Rogers 

 about the experiment, contact him at 

 the Marine Resources Center at Ft. 

 Fisher, General Delivery, Kure Beach, 

 N. C. 28449 or call (919) 458-5498. 



UNC Sea Grant has received ap- 

 proval for its 1984 renewal budget re- 

 quest. The program will be awarded 

 $1,175,000 in federal funds to complete 

 the second year of its biennial program 

 proposal. 



If you would like to 

 know more about the 

 potential for a squid 

 fishery, then Sea Grant 

 has a workshop for you. 

 Sea Grant's Southeast 

 Marine Advisory Ser- 

 vices, the National Marine Fisheries 

 Service and the Gulf and South Atlan- 

 tic Fisheries Development Foundation 

 are sponsoring a squid workshop, 

 January 26, from 6 to 10 p.m. at the 

 Marine Resources Center in Manteo. 



The workshop will begin with a 

 social where participants can get a 

 taste of squid and peruse squid 

 products. At 7 p.m., a panel of experts 

 will be assembled to discuss the poten- 

 tial of the fishery, location of the squid 

 resource, quantities of squid available, 

 harvesting methods, onboard handling 

 procedures, processing and marketing. 

 A question-and-answer session will 

 follow. 



The workshop is free. For more in- 

 formation, contact either: Jim 



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