Coastwatch 



COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



Managing Editor 

 Katie Mosher 



Senior Editors 

 Ann Green 

 Pam Smith 



Designer 

 L. Noble 



Circulation Manager 

 Sandra Harris 



The North Carolina Sea Grant College 

 Program is a federal/state program that 

 promotes the wise use 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 several research projects, 

 a 12-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. 

 Subscriptions are $15. 

 E-mail: kmosher@unity.ncsu.edu. 

 World Wide Web address: 

 http ://www. ncsu. edu/seagrant 

 Periodical Postage paid at Raleigh, N.C. 



POSTMASTER: Send address changes to 



Coastwatch, North Carolina Sea Grant, 

 North Carolina State University, Box 8605, 

 Raleigh, NC 27695-8605. 



Front cover photo of herring catch 

 and table of contents photo of 

 Renee Wolcott Shannon's first fish 

 by Scott D. Taylor. 



Printed on recycled paper. ® 



Hodson Receives Aquaculture Honor 



North Carolina Sea 

 Grant Director Ronald 

 Hodson has been given 

 a Friend of Aquaculture 

 award from the North 

 Carolina Aquaculture 

 Association. 



The award, which 

 recognizes Hodson' s 

 contribution to the develop- 

 ment of the hybrid striped 

 bass industry, was presented 

 at the annual North Carolina Aquaculture 

 Development Conference held recently in 

 New Bern. 



Hodson is recognized nationally and 

 internationally for his aquaculture work. His 

 research and extension efforts took hybrid 

 striped bass farming from demonstration 

 projects to an industry that generates 

 millions each year. 



"If it hadn't been for his persistence 

 and dogged determination, we would not 



have this industry," says 

 Tom Ellis, who heads the 

 aquaculture division of the 

 North Carolina Department 

 of Agriculture and Con- 

 sumer Services. "He can 

 put forth the science in a 

 manner that people can 

 use it." 



Hodson joined North 

 Carolina Sea Grant in 1981 

 as associate director for 

 research. He was appointed director in 

 1998 after serving 18 months as interim 

 director. 



In addition to extensive research, 

 Hodson has written a manual, Farming a 

 New Fish: Hybrid Striped Bass, which 

 describes how to get started in fish farming. 

 For information on the manual and other 

 aquaculture topics, contact North Carolina 

 Sea Grant at 919/5 15-2454, or check the 

 Web at www.ncsu.edu/seagrant. - K.M. 



Sea Grant Heads Dockside 



The North Carolina Sea Grant Wilmington office has sailed into a new port at 

 the Center for Marine Science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 



The new building houses research labs and offices for UNC-W scientists. Nestled 

 behind Masonboro Island, the facility includes a dock and water access. 



The new mailing address is North Carolina Sea Grant, 5001 Masonboro Loop 

 Road, Wilmington. NC 28409 



Sea Grant staff will have direct phone lines. Kathy Nobles will handle general 

 information calls at 910/962-2490. To reach Spencer Rogers, coastal construction 

 and engineering specialist, call 91 0/962-2491 . To reach fisheries specialist Jim Bahen, 

 call 91 0/962-2492. The office fax will be 91 0/962-241 0. 



E-mail addresses will remain the same: rogerssp@uncwil.edu or bahenj@uncwil.edu. 



Look for a tour of the new facility in a future Coastwatch. 



In the meantime, "come visit," Rogers invites. - K.M. 



In the Next Issue of Coastwatch 



T e cold war against beach erosion is heating up. Efforts abound to 

 renourish beaches that have lost tons of sand to not-so-gentle waves. Pam 

 Smith looks at these proposals — and the funding sources — as well as 

 arguments against such projects. Readers also will get a preview of The 

 Estuary's Gilt, a new cultural biography by Sea Grant researcher David Griffith 

 of East Carolina University. 



2 SPRING 2000 



