Coastwatch 



Managing Editor 

 Katie Mosher 



Senior Editors 

 Ann Green 

 Pam Smith 



Contributing Editors 

 Kathleen Angione, Lilly Loughner, 

 Ryan Reynolds 



Designer 

 L. Noble 



Circulation Manager 

 Sandra Harris 



The North Carolina Sea Grant College Program 



is a federal/state program that promotes 

 stewardship of our coastal and marine resources 



through research, extension and education. 

 It joined the National Sea Grant College Network 

 in 1970 as an institutional program. Six years later, 



it was designated a Sea Grant College. 

 Today. North Carolina Sea Grant supports research 

 projects, a 15-member extension program and a 

 communications staff. Ron Hodson is director. 

 The program is funded by the U.S. Department 

 of Commerce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

 Administration and the state through the 

 University of North Carolina 

 Coastwatch (ISSN 1068-784X) 

 is published six times a year by the 

 North Carolina Sea Grant College Program, 

 North Carolina State University, Box 8605, 

 Raleigh, North Carolina 27695-8605. 

 Telephone: 919/515-2454. Fax: 919/515-7095. 

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Fogg: New Sea Grant Finance Director 



Kir 



kirn Fogg has taken 

 over the financial reins at North 

 Carolina Sea Grant. 



As assistant director for 

 finance, Fogg will provide budget 

 and grant oversight. 



Fogg replaces Tammy 

 Sumner Cox, who became 

 director of business and 

 financial services for the North 

 Carolina State University Alumni 

 Association. 



Fogg has worked at NC State University 

 since 1 992. Before coming to Sea Grant, she 

 was operations manager of the Mechanical and 

 Aerospace Engineering Department. 



"I spent seven years at Contracts and 



Kim Fogg 



Grants where I fell in love with 

 research," says Fogg. "So North 

 Carolina Sea Grant was a good 

 match forme." 



Fogg is a native of 

 Baltimore. She attended 

 California State Polytechnic 

 University, Pomona. In February 

 1 992, she moved to North 

 Carolina. 



"We are very pleased 

 to have found someone with 

 Kim's experience and knowledge," says North 

 Carolina Sea Grant Director Ronald G. 

 Hodson. "In addition, her pleasant personality 

 and good humor fit well with the relaxed 

 atmosphere in our office." — A.G. 



Marine Fisheries Fellow Delves into Data 



^ince being named the 

 2004-2005 Marine Fisheries 

 Fellow, Stacy Luthy has been 

 busy analyzing 30 years of 

 historical data and generating 

 biological information that will 

 be used to assess the stocks of 

 various estuarine and marine 

 finfishes. 



The focus of her one-year 

 fellowship — supported by 

 North Carolina Sea Grant and 

 the N.C. Division of Marine 

 Fisheries (DMF) - is to interpret historic DMF 

 monitoring data for future fishery management 

 plans. 



So far, the data set is yielding valuable 

 information about both white and yellow 

 perch. And, Luthy is developing indices of 

 abundance by age class for both species. 



"I am getting great information on white 

 and yellow perch. The time series dates back 

 to the 1 970s, and provides a good record of 

 recruitment over that time," Luthy points out. 

 She is looking closer at factors at play in the 

 late 1 980s when white perch recruitment levels 

 appear to have been the lowest in the DMF 

 30-year monitoring period. 



Stacy Luthy 



Her findings will be 

 valuable to officials developing 

 management plans forwhite 

 and yellow perch, whose status 

 is listed as "concerned" by 

 DMF. 



Fisheries management 

 plans were mandated by the 

 1997 N.C. Fisheries Reform 

 Act. They address stock status 

 and socio-economic concerns, 

 as well as water quality and 

 habitat needs. 

 Luthy earned her doctoral degree in 

 marine biology and fisheries in 2004 from 

 The University of Miami, Coral Gables. As a 

 graduate research assistant, her focus was on 

 the biology of billfish larvae. She created a key 

 to identify marlin and sailfish larvae to species, 

 estimated ages of the larvae, and used current 

 calculations to identify potential spawning 

 areas for blue marlin, white marlin and sailfish. 



"This information could help define 

 sensitive billfish spawning areas for future 

 protection," Luthy says. 



Luthy is based at North Carolina State 

 University's Center for Marine Sciences and 

 Technology in Morehead City. — P.S. 



2 SPRING 2005 



