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Beach vitex was introduced into the southeastern United States from Korea in the 1980s. Scientists believed the plant could help stabilize sand dunes. Beach vitex now grows as far north as Ocracoke Island and as far south as Florida and Alabama. Heavy concentrations are also found on Bogue Banks, Bald Head Island, and Oak Island. Experts in North Carolina are seeking to have the plant listed as a Federal Noxious Weed. North and South Carolina's two-state task force has worked to stop the plant's spread.
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Muzel Bryant was born on Ocracoke on March 12, 1904. She traces her lineage on the island back to the Civil War. At the war's close in 1865, all former slaves left the island. Her grandparents were the only two African Americans to move from the mainland to Ocracoke. Bryant has lived off the island only once when she worked during her teenage years in Philadelphia. Today, at the age of 100, she is an important link to Outer Banks history.
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Walter Clark, who served as the North Carolina Sea Grant's coastal law, planning and policy specialist for over two decades, retired in January 2007. Angione discusses how Clark's career with Sea Grant helped to shape coastal policy.
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Coastwatch
(NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. Issue , Early Summer 2007,
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Restoration of urban streams is increasing in North Carolina and across the rest of the country. These waterways have been buried under parking lots, culverts, or similar structures. Angione explores two projects that are becoming international models for stream restoration success Rocky Branch, which flows through the North Carolina State University Campus and Little Sugar Creek, which flows under a parking lot in Charlotte.
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Stormwater runoff is a major pollution problem for shellfish farms. Home construction in coastal areas is growing. More people mean more roads, driveways, and parking lots. Water running over these impervious surfaces picks up contaminants such as oil, sand, chemicals, and fertilizers and deposits them in nearby rivers and streams. The more contaminants the harder it is for shellfish to grow. Reconciling the demand for development and the need for healthy shellfish is a challenge facing coastal planners.
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Shrimp is one of the most popular seafood products in the country, but what most Americans do not realize is that 90 percent of the shrimp they are eating is imported. Over half of the imports are raised in ponds in Asia and South American and not caught in the wild. This has put the American shrimp industry at a disadvantage in trying to compete with the cheaper imports. Angione explores 'Wild American Shrimp,' a new marking effort of Wild American Shrimp, Inc. (WASI), the marketing arm of the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA), which seeks to promote the quality of American shrimp.
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Shackleford Banks, part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore, is a 3,000-acre uninhabited island near Atlantic Beach. A herd of 112 wild horses lives there, one of only a few wild herds remaining in the country. The herd's reproductive rate is carefully controlled to keep the horses from putting a strain on the island's food and water resources. To understand how the horses thrive and survive in the island's harsh environment, the National Park Service has undertaken a study of the horses' eating habits. The study will look at seasonal eating habits and whether different habitats provide different nutritional contents. No findings have been reported as yet, and the study will take another year to complete.
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In 1987, Lee Brothers of Aurora became the first person in the country to pond-raise hybrid sea bass commercially. The fish, a cross between a striped bass and a white bass, generates around $7 million annually in the state. Hybrids are popular in sushi and sashimi markets in the Northeast. North Carolina now has nineteen hybrid producers, the most in the United States. Beaufort County has five of the nineteen fish farms. As coastal development pushes into areas where the fish are raised, farmers face public pressure about releasing effluent from their ponds into streams and rivers.
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While seafood is on the rise in popularity, North Carolina fishermen and seafood dealers are feeling high competition from foreign imports. Angione reports on a workshop that presents new marking approaches for the state's seafood industry.
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For over a century there has been a steady decline of the Eastern oyster in the Pamlico Sound. Habitat destruction, pollution, overharvesting, and disease are major factors in reducing the 1902 harvest of 1.8 million bushels to barely 49,000 in 2003. Working with satellite mapping and sonar imaging, Eugene Ballance of Ocracoke is transforming the 1886-1887 Navy survey maps of the oyster reefs in the Pamlico Sound into blueprints for restoring the Eastern oyster. The early maps were created by naval officer Lt. Francis E. Winslow, who, after retiring from the Navy, started the Pamlico Oyster Company in the late 1880s.
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In 2005, around twelve million people visited North Carolina's coastal region. Many coastal visitors come by car and have difficulty finding places to park. State and federal parks usually have large parking facilities, but some coastal communities struggle to accommodate visitors. Public access and parking issues among North Carolina's coastal communities are examined.
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A project to restore 1,400 feet of an urban creek running through the North Carolina State University campus began in February 2009. Approximately 235 buried feet of Rocky Creek and will be dug up as part of the project. The creek flows into Walnut Creek, a tributary of the Neuse River, which empties into Pamlico Sound. The restored creek will be free of pollution and will support a variety of aquatic life and vegetation.
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Rocky Branch, an urban stream in Raleigh, has been restored to its former glory. Barbara Doll, a water quality specialist, has been involved in the project since its inception.
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Drought, high, salinities, extended higher water temperatures, and low-turbidity due to a lack of ocean storms created conditions in 2007 that attracted a nuisance invasive called animal grass to the coastline from Carteret to Dare Counties. Angione describes this invasive that caused fishermen problems by closing fishing nets.
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Angione discusses the economic, environmental, and cultural revitalization going on in Washington, North Carolina. Main Street is home to a variety of shops, from furniture to art galleries, and restaurants offer specialties to satisfy a variety of palates. The waterfront has had a facelift, and the old railroad depot is now the town's civic center.
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