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19348
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With the lingering red tide, fishermen, especially shell fishers, have been out of jobs for weeks. The toxic tide has influenced a ban on shellfish harvesting in some areas.
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Coastwatch (NoCar QH 91 A1 N62x), Vol. 15 Issue , Feb 1988, p4-5, il Periodical Website
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35522
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Shellfish—their lives, the industry’s livelihood—looked bleak when Red Tide rolled in. The future became brighter with its causes’ discovery: inadequate treatment of human and animal wastes. It also brightened with the solutions: improvement of septic tank surveillance and testing procedures. A chart reiterated the need for improvement, with counties ranging from Dare to New Hanover, waterways from Hyde County’s Kitty Creek to Harkers Island’s Back Sound.
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New East (NoCar F 251 T37x), Vol. 1 Issue 1, Jan/Feb 1973, p14-15, 35, 44
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19317
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It was like D-Day in coastal North Carolina. The state's ocean waters were tainted with tiny organisms of a subtropical species of red tide dinoflagellate that turns the water red. It leaves beachcombers coughing, fish suffocating, and shellfishermen out of work. The organisms have neurotoxins that affect the nervous systems of other organisms. Although it is safe to eat the fish, crabs, and shrimp that lie in red tides because it does not taint their flesh, oysters, clams, and scallops are another story.
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