Life at the Edge 

 of the Sea 



The Southern Coastal 

 Heritage Program will host its 

 annual "Life at the Edge of the 

 Sea" teacher workshop June 20-23 

 at Trinity Conference Center in 

 Salter Path. 



The workshop covers diverse 

 fields — geology, archeology and 

 anthropology, marine sciences 

 and folklore. 



This year's "adventure sites" 

 include Cape Lookout Lighthouse 

 and National Seashore and the 

 Waterfowl Museum on Harkers 

 Island. Teams will create a virtual 

 field trip to use in their classrooms. 



The $395 registration fee 

 covers room and board, marine 

 transportation, and a 500-page 

 resource book. Participants earn 

 three continuing education units. 



The program is sponsored by 

 North Carolina State University in 

 cooperation with East Carolina 

 University and the University of 

 North Carolina at Wilmington. 

 Instructors also include local ex- 

 perts. Check last year's workshop 

 at www2.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chass/exten- 

 sion/ coastal. html. 



Registration is limited. Con- 

 tact Chip Futrell, NC State Con- 

 tinuing and Professional Educa- 

 tion, 919/513-1938. -P.S. 



COASTAL 



TIDINGS 



N.C. Ocean Bowl Winners 



lor the third time in three years, 

 Walter Williams High School in 

 Burlington won the N.C. Ocean Science 

 Bowl in March at North Carolina State 

 University. An alternate Wlliams team 

 was runner-up. 



Southside High School in 

 Chocowinity took third place honors. 



Fourteen teams competed in the 

 third annual regional event at the 

 McKimmon Center in Raleigh. 



The Ocean Science Bowl was 

 inaugurated in 1998, The Year of the 

 Ocean, as a way to re-energize precollege 

 educational programs in the marine 

 sciences. 



The 2000 state championship team 

 received scholarships from NC State's 



College of Physical and Mathematical 

 Sciences. They also advanced to the 

 National Ocean Science Bowl Tournament 

 in Washington, D.C., in April. All three top 

 teams won a saltwater canoe trip donated 

 by the N.C. Coastal Federation. 



The N.C. Ocean Science Bowl is 

 coordinated by the Consortium for 

 Oceanographic Research and Education 

 (CORE), which includes NC State, East 

 Carolina University, the University of North 

 Carolina at Wlmington and the University 

 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Support 

 also comes from North Carolina Sea 

 Grant, the UNC Math and Science 

 Education Network and Centers, the N.C. 

 Coastal Federation and NC State's Science 

 House. -A.G. 



Seafood Directory Updated 



A good catch isn't always a load 

 of fish. Sometimes it's a good idea that 

 catches on — like the North Carolina 

 Seafood Directory. 



Originally published through sup- 

 port from a 1998 Fishery Resource 

 Grant (FRG), the directory was a good 

 idea caught by the N.C. Department of 

 Agriculture and Consumer Services, 

 which expects to have an updated di- 

 rectory available soon. 



The directory reads like a census 

 of seafood offered by North Carolina 

 distributors from the coast to mountain 

 streams. Readers can find flounder or 

 see spot. There are catfish and dogfish. 

 Even porgy and bass. 



The colorful listings include blue- 

 fish, red snappers, croakers and grunts. 

 And that's just a sampling of the fin- 

 fish. 



The shellfish listing is equally ex- 

 tensive, with oysters, shrimp, clams, 

 mussels, conchs and crabs — hard or 

 soft shell, snow or stone. Also included 

 are prepared delicacies, such as crab 

 cakes or smoked tuna, as well as live 



seafood. Other products include bait 

 fish, fish meal and seafood compost. 



William Small II, seafood market- 

 ing specialist for the agriculture depart- 

 ment, says the directory is a valuable 

 marketing tool. In fact, it has proven 

 quite popular at the annual Boston Sea- 

 food Show, which is, according to 

 Small, "the seafood show of the year in 

 the world." 



A Sea Grant seafood availability 

 chart is included with the directory. 



Free listings are available to li- 

 censed seafood dealers, aquaculture 

 producers and seafood distributors. For 

 the original project, Clifton Lynch of 

 the agricultural marketing division sur- 

 veyed more than 1 ,000 businesses. 



For more information on the direc- 

 tory, contact Small at 252/331-4773. 



To learn more about the FRG pro- 

 gram, call 919/515-2454 or 252/247- 

 4007. Or check the Web at 

 www.ncsu.edu/seagranl and follow the 

 research links to the FRG pages. The 

 next deadline for proposals is June 1 . 



- C.H.V. 



EARLY SUMMER 2000 



