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The Fulcher family has operated the Clayton Fulcher Seafood Company in Atlantic, a community in Carteret County, for almost eighty years. The closing is part of the decline in the seafood business. An oral history project at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum and Heritage Center on Harkers Island is recording the seafood business memories of the Fulcher family and other residents, including commercial fishers and fish house owners.
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Green visits three community colleges: College of the Albemarle; Carteret Community College; and Cape Fear Community College to observe hands-on training in the skill of boat building. The course work is helping to train the workforce for the state's boat building industry.
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Some 400 species of birds call North Carolina home for part or all of a year. Several wildlife organizations in the state have collaborated to create a new guide to locate best viewing sites of these birds. Titled North Carolina Birding Trail Coastal Plain Trail Guide, the book contains colorful photos, 102 birding sites, and birding trails, all located east of I-95.
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The Dismal Swamp Canal is the oldest continuously operating manmade canal in the country. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. The canal is also part of the National Underground Railroad Network, an escape route for slaves during pre-Civil War days. Green takes readers on a cruise from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to Deep Creek, Virginia, highlighting the canal's engineering and its role in history.
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The blue crab is North Carolina's most valuable commercial fishery. The state was the top blue crab producing one between 1994 and 1999. In 2002, the state still accounted for 21 percent of the country's total harvest. A Blue Crab Research Program by North Carolina Sea Grant specialist Sara Mirabilio provides insight into crab harvests, management, and research. Green explains the project and takes the reader on a crabbing trip in the Currituck Sound.
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Along Morehead City's waterfront the number of commercial fishing boats has declined, charter boats are increasing in number, and new development projects are starting up. During the past twenty-five years the city obtained a Community Development Block Grant for waterfront improvement. That, plus private investment, has brought the town a new sea wall, underground utilities, brick paved sidewalks with planters along the waterfront, and new boat docks available for the public. Green takes the reader on a tour of Morehead City's new look.
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After a thirty-year lull, residents of eastern North Carolina received a grim reminder of the power of a hurricane when Fran, a category 3 storm, came ashore on September 5, 1996, at Topsail Island and drove as far inland as Raleigh. The storm was part of a one-two punch; Hurricane Bertha had struck the area two months before in July. Fran left $5 billion in damages. Green examines changes that have taken place over the last ten years, including building code updates for ocean properties, beach recovery, and new coastal insurance options.
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Changes are occurring on Hatteras Island. One tradition that is vanishing from the Hatteras waterfront, as fisherman switch to gill nets, is haul seining. Another change is the decline in boat slips for commercial fishermen. In the last twenty-five years over 100 boat slips have been lost to private developers, and commercial fishing captains are competing for the 50 slips remaining in Hatteras. Fish houses have declined from six to two recently. To help fishermen, the Dare County Commissioners are petitioning the General Assembly to give tax breaks to fishermen as they do to farmers. Green explores the history of the Hatteras community from 1846 to the present.
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Red drum gets its name from its reddish-brown color and from the drum-like noise produced by spawning males. North Carolina red drum can weigh over forty pounds. Researchers have been tagging this fish for a number of years and found one fish traveled 188 miles from Hatteras Island to the Chesapeake Bay. The average distance between tagging and recapture locations is twenty nautical miles, and the longest time a red drum was in the water between tagging and recapture was almost twelve years.
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For the first half of the 20th-century, Salter Path, in Carteret County, was a quiet, peaceful fishing village. Many of the inhabitants were descendants of people forced to leave nearby Shackleford Banks after two powerful hurricanes. The same families occupied Salter Path for generations, including the Frosts, Smiths, Guthries, Willises, and Lewises. During the 1950s, Highway 58, the road through town, was paved. After that, motels, restaurants, and businesses sprang up, and tourism increased. Green explores the landmarks and people in the town's history.
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North Carolina's coastal population is increasing, and many of the new residents are Hispanic. In 2004, the state's total Hispanic population was over 600,000, and in coastal counties they represent a new workforce. Most of the resources for immigrants, including health care and education, are provided by the local communities. To help communities in this region adapt to working with immigrants, North Carolina Sea Grant researchers have conducted a study comparing the immigrants' use of resources with that of citizens and retirees from other states, as well as of native North Carolinians.
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The second largest battle of the Civil War in North Carolina was fought at Plymouth on April 17-20, 1864. On Living History Weekend, held in April, history comes alive with period reenactors from around the country portraying soldiers and sailors from the famous battle. Green discusses the battle and historic sites to visit during the weekend.
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Each year the North Carolina Lions Club holds the Visually Impaired Persons (VIP) Fishing Tournament. The First Flight, Nags Head, Manteo, Wanchese, Columbia, and Plymouth Lions Clubs sponsor the tournaments which are held on the Outer Banks. The 2004 event attracted 400 individuals aged twelve to ninety-one. Competitors fish from a pier or from a boat. The activities of a typical tournament are described.
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Every foreign vessel and every registered U.S. vessel of more than sixty tons entering and leaving a North Carolina port is required by law to use a state-licensed pilot. Any ship master violating this law is guilty of a Class I misdemeanor. Green discusses the history of pilots in North Carolina waters, pilot training, and current 'homeland security' duties.
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Protecting seafood from bacteria harmful to humans starts as soon as the fish are landed on the boat. Green discusses a new program to prevent histamine poisoning in bluefish, tuna, and other scombroid species. According to state officials, there was just one case of histamine poisoning in North Carolina in 2004 and that was in Dare County. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta reported 297 cases between 1993 and 1997.
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