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Murray Bridges owns Endurance Seafood Company in Colington. Bridges has been selling peelers, or crabs that are about to shed their shells, for over twenty-five years. His company is the largest crab shedder in Dare County, and each year he sells over 50,000 dozen soft shell crabs. In 2000, soft shell crab sales were around $3.3 million and early in the 2001 season a dozen small crabs sold for $20 and a dozen jumbo crabs were $36.
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh contains thousands of specimens and skeletons of fish, amphibians, and invertebrates. Items date from 1890 to 1999. Green discusses the various collections and how scientists use them to reveal habitat information.
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Hope Plantation was built in 1803 by David Stone, who was governor from 1808 to 1810. Visitors to the stately Bertie County plantation can experience rural life in the northeastern part of the state as it was lived in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries.
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A recent study by scientists at the North Carolina State University Seafood Laboratory in Morehead City has discovered a new way to treat raw fish and processing equipment to reduce the amount of bacteria that could spoil the seafood. The treatment uses ozone. Green examines how this new approach could benefit seafood processing plants.
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Alger G. Willis Fishing Camps, located on Core Banks, the southern part of the Cape Lookout National Seashore, have attracted anglers for over fifty years. Green describes the camps' history and what changes the years have brought.
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Some homes survive the powerful winds and water of a hurricane; others do not. Green discusses how homes can be improved through building techniques, including new designs for plywood shutters and strong rooms.
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For canoe enthusiasts, eastern North Carolina provides 1,200 miles of navigable waters. Each canoe trail entry point has a map and information on the difficulty level of the trail, mile markers, and places to put in and take out a canoe. The trails provide canoeists the opportunity to bird watch, fish, explore historic places, and observe plants and wildlife.
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An 18th-century shipwreck, discovered at the mouth of Pembroke Creek in Edenton, provides a teaching site for East Carolina University maritime archaeology students. The ocean-going vessel is approximately 85 feet long and 25 feet wide. Green describes the students' activities and artifacts discovered.
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Green discusses the last and only beach seine crew for striped mullet on Bogue Banks. She also discusses a study of the mortality rate of striped mullet conducted by the North Carolina Sea Grant/North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries.
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Founded in 1957, the Cape Hatteras Anglers Club's Annual Invitational Surf Fishing Tournament is one of the largest of its kind in the world and is North Carolina's second oldest fishing tournament. The fisherman's catch is measured and then released; points are awarded based on the size of the fish. Surf fishing generates $1.6 billion to the state economy, with anglers spending $170 million on trips and $1.4 billion on durable goods.
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Green discusses the new federal permit that is required for private recreational fishing boats that target highly migratory species, or HMS. The regulations cover species including sharks, tunas, swordfishes, and billfishes. The permits are required for anglers doing catch-and-release fishing or landing the fish.
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Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower stands about twenty miles off the coast in an area of treacherous water called Frying Pan Shoals. Light towers are like lighthouses in water. The towers replaced lightships; now the towers are being replaced by buoys that transmit weather data that can be read online. Green discusses the history of lightships and light towers and the soon-to-be dismantled Frying Pan tower.
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Stan Riggs, an East Carolina University distinguished research professor, has spent thirty years trekking through soggy swamps, muddy marshes, and hot beaches to gather data on erosion rates along North Carolina's 4,000 miles of coastal and estuarine shorelines. His work has ranged through state, national, and international projects. In 1983, he received the O. Max Gardner Award, which is presented annually to the University of North Carolina system faculty member \"who has made the greatest contribution to the welfare of the human race.\" Green interviews Riggs about his lifelong coastal research.
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North Carolina has a long history of shrimping. Commercial shrimping began in the early days of the 20th-century and centered around the Southport area. Three species of shrimp are caught in the state's coastal waters -- the brown, pink, and white. Green discusses the history of shrimping from Native American times to the present; boats and equipment used; and legal and environmental issues.
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In 2000, Elizabeth City State University began its Marine Environmental Science program. Enrollment for the program was four students. In 2004, nineteen students were in the program. Green discusses the program and areas of student participation, including salt marsh restoration and surveys of coastal vegetation.
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