ABOVE: A captain sets shrimp trawl nets in the water. 



CCA prefers that shrimpers use skimmer 

 trawls over otter trawls, which Roberts argues 

 drag the bottom and damage nursery areas for 

 finfish. 



"We need to do everything possible to 

 reduce finfish bycatch," he adds. "The skimmer 

 trawl seems to minimize bycatch." 



Because of the controversy over shrimp 

 trawling and decline in price due to foreign 

 imports and other factors, DMF moved up the 

 date for the state's first shrimp management 

 plan. The division expects to have the plan 

 completed in 2005, according to Carpenter. 



"The plan will examine all aspects of 



shrimping in North Carolina, including bycatch, 

 impacts on habitats, economics, gears and 

 practices utilized in the state," he adds. □ 



For up-to-date information on turtle 

 excluder devices and bycatch reduction devices 

 for commercial shrimpers, visit Louisiana Sea 

 Grant's fisheries Web site: www.seagrantfish. 

 lsu.edu/management and click on "gear." 



For more information on the North 

 Carolina 's shrimp management plan, contact 

 theN.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, www. 

 ncfisheries.net or 800/682-2632. 



CORE SOUND WATERFOWL WEEKEND 



Shirmping demonstrations and other coastal North Carolina presentations at the 2004 

 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be recreated at the Core Sound Waterfowl Weekend Dec. 4-5. 



Organizers from the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum on Harkers Island in Carteret County 

 also expect to host representatives from Maryland and Virginia coastal communities who 

 participated in the national festival. 



The Waterfowl Weekend includes a dessert reception on Friday evening, Dec. 3 at the 

 museum. PCS Phosphate is the lead sponsor of the Fducational Tent, which will be open 

 Saturday, Dec. 4, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, Dec. 5, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 



For more information, go online to www.coresound.com. Or, call the museum at 

 252/728-1500. 



NEW BOOK 

 ON SHRIMPING 

 INDUSTRY 



Along North 

 Carolina's coast, the 

 shrimping industry has a 

 rich heritage — from the 

 early years in Southport to 

 current economic issues. 



In Hard Times and 

 a Nickel a Bucket, John 

 Maiolo highlights the 

 state's shrimping history 

 as well as local customs 

 and regulations. Named 

 to honor the African 

 American women who 

 headed the shrimp in 

 the 1930s for a "nickel a bucket," the 

 book also includes historical trends and 

 harvest-technology 

 changes. 



For more than 

 25 years, Maiolo 

 and colleagues 

 at East Carolina 

 University 

 researched 

 the state's 

 shrimping 

 industry. North 

 Carolina Sea Grant 

 provided early support for the project. 



"Our work in the late seventies 

 and early eighties was the first attempt 

 in North Carolina to understand the 

 social and economic organization of 

 the shrimp fishery — the fishermen, 

 their communities and communication 

 networks, the processing and marketing 

 organizations, and the resource- 

 management structure itself," writes 

 Maiolo. 



To order a copy of the book, 

 contact Chapel Hill Press, 919/942-8393 

 or publisher@chapelhillpress.com. 



— A.C. 



COASTWATCH 11 



