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Sea turtles emerged around 110 million years ago. At their peak there were four families of them, each with several dozen species. Today, only two families survive. Amanda Southwood, a sea turtle researcher at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, received a North Carolina Fishery Resource Grant in 2006 to study sea turtle movements. The turtles studied are those that have become entangled in fishing nets in the lower Cape Fear River then released. Without satellite and high-frequency tags to track the turtles, there is no way to know if the released animal survived or not.
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Green discusses the innovative zoning plan developed for the city of Wanchese, a tiny community on the southernmost end of Roanoke Island. The plan includes twelve zoning districts that feature traditional village businesses, horse farms, and waterfront fish houses. For example, the Wanchese Wharf Marine Commercial Zone allows for boatyards, offices, schools, taxidermy, and marine businesses, whereas the Baumtown Traditional Zone permits mobile and single-family homes, as well as farming, waterfowl, poultry, and greenhouses.
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Sneads Ferry is the top producer of black sea bass in the South Atlantic. Lee reports on a North Carolina Fishery Resource Grant project that seeks to study the efficiency and effectiveness of different configurations of black sea bass pots. The project has three main tasks: to determine if a certain pot type catches more legal sea bass; discover if a particular pot type catches more undersized sea bass; and compare the health of the released sub-legal sea bass from each pot type. The study is being conducted in Onslow Bay.
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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,
p17-22, il, por
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The North Carolina General Assembly passed legislation in 2006 establishing the North Carolina Waterfront Access Study Committee. Access to water along the state's coastline is a hot topic, because piers, boat ramps, and other access points are being sold to developers. Getting to the water is becoming more difficult for the average citizen. The twenty-one-member committee offers twenty-seven recommendations in this executive summary, excerpted from the full report.
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Since the early 1900s, North Carolina's native eastern oyster has declined 90 percent. Lee reports on the North Carolina Oyster Hatchery's Program plan to restore oysters in the state.
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The Southeast Phytoplankton Monitoring Network monitors harmful algae blossoms in ocean water. Recently student volunteers from First Flight High School in Kill Devil Hills, who were monitoring phytoplankton at an open-ocean site in Duck, discovered a species of harmful algae. Green discusses the monitoring network and the students' findings.
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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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THE INNER ISLANDS: A CAROLINIAN'S SOUND COUNTRY CHRONICLE by Bland and Ann Cary Simpson highlights the biodiversity, geography and human history those of those oft-forgotten bits of land scattered about in the waters behind the state's barrier islands. In this excerpt from one chapter, Brown Island is discussed.
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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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Angione reports on a new study conducted by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that makes a connection between bats and the water quality in the state's river and streams.
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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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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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When Ocracoke Island's last fish house closed, not only were fishermen affected but also the island's culture and way of life. The Ocracoke experience was one more example of what has been happening to traditional waterfront activities along North Carolina's coastline in recent years. For six months, local fishermen were without a place to bring their catch. Green discusses how local fishermen banded together with others to save and reopen their fish house.
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