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Fishing Show 

 and Seminar 

 Around the Bend 



New initiatives are on the horizon 

 for North Carolina's fishery resources. 

 In their wake, questions abound. 



What's behind the two-year 

 moratorium on the sale of commercial 

 fishing licenses? What kind of 

 projects will the state's new fishery 

 resource grant program fund? What 

 will the efforts of the Oyster Blue 

 Ribbon Advisory Council mean for 

 replenishment of these shellfish in 

 North Carolina? 



These topics — along with the 

 future of bycatch reduction devices in 

 the shrimp fleet — will be the focus of 

 a fisheries seminar to coincide with 

 the 15th Annual N.C. Commercial 

 Fishing Show and Festival March 1 1- 

 12 in Morehead City. 



The free seminar, sponsored by 

 N.C. Sea Grant, is scheduled for 1 

 p.m. to 4 p.m. on March 1 1 at the 

 Crystal Coast Civic Center. Featured 

 speakers are B.J. Copeland, director of 

 N.C. Sea Grant; Dirk Frankenberg, 

 chair of the Oyster Blue Ribbon 

 Advisory Council; and Sean McKenna 

 of the N.C. Division of Marine 

 Fisheries. 



The civic center is also the site 

 of the two-day show and festival 

 sponsored by the N.C. Fisheries 

 Association. It features commercial 

 fishing equipment, demonstrations of 

 boatbuilding and net-making and a 

 U.S. Coast Guard air-to-sea rescue 

 simulation in Bogue Sound. Admis- 

 sion to the show is $2 (children under 

 12 admitted free); seafood and 

 concessions will be available through- 

 out. Show hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

 Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

 Sunday. 



For more information about the 

 fisheries seminar, call N.C. Sea Grant 

 at 919/515-2454. For more informa- 

 tion about the fishing show, call Tina 

 Beacham, N.C. Fisheries Association, 

 919/633-2288. 



Knauss Fellow Named 



Cinnamon Rogers, a law student 

 at the University of North Carolina at 

 Chapel Hill, was recently named a 

 Dean John A. Knauss Policy Fellow 

 by the National Sea Grant College 

 Program. 



Rogers, who was submitted as a 

 candidate for the fellows program by 

 N.C. Sea Grant, is co-president of the 

 Environmental Law Project at the 

 UNC-CH Law School. The project 

 tackles environmental justice projects. 



During the summer of 1994, 

 Rogers served as a legal intern for the 



Cinnamon Rogers 



environmental division of the N.C. 

 Attorney General's office. She 

 participated in cases involving the 

 N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries 

 and N.C. Division of Coastal Manage- 

 ment, researching such issues as 

 public trust ownership of submerged 

 lands, commercial fishing regulations 

 and commercial fishing license 

 revocations. 



A native of Chapel Hill, Rogers 

 received her undergraduate degree in 

 political science from the University 

 of Michigan at Ann Arbor. 



The Knauss program matches 

 highly qualified graduate students 

 with hosts in Congress, the executive 

 branch or appropriate associations/ 



institutions for a one-year paid 

 fellowship in Washington, D.C. 

 Rogers plans to work in the legislative 

 branch. 



Coastwatth Honored 



Coastwatch and its staff won a 

 1994 APEX Award for Publication 

 Excellence in the sixth annual 

 competition sponsored by the editors 

 of Communications Concepts, 

 publishers of Communications 

 Manager and Writing Concepts. 



The Sea Grant magazine won an 

 honor in the category of nonprofit 

 external magazines/journals. 



Hurray! 



Fishing Forum 1995 

 Looks at a Critical 

 Year for Fisheries 



Fisheries issues are at a cross- 

 roads in North Carolina and across the 

 nation. The 1995 N.C. Marine 

 Recreational Fishing Forum, sched- 

 uled March 4 in Raleigh, will evaluate 

 some of the problems plaguing 

 fisheries and the management options 

 for resolving them. 



"There are some major problems 

 in fisheries," says Jim Murray, 

 conference organizer and director of 

 the Marine Advisory Service for N.C. 

 Sea Grant. "They've been in the news 

 a lot. And there are going to be some 

 important decisions to be made, all 

 suggesting that there could be major 

 changes in the next year or two." 



Among the upcoming issues in 

 North Carolina are the possible 

 passage of a saltwater license to fish 

 and changes in management during 

 the moratorium on commercial 

 licenses. North Carolina also has a 

 blue ribbon council studying the 

 oyster industry and an opening for 

 director of the Division of Marine 

 Fisheries. 



Conference organizers hope that 

 the discussion among panelists and 

 attendees will help influence the 

 direction of fisheries issues in the 

 state. 



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