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1684
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Sea Grant researchers Robert Roer, Richard Dillaman, and Thomas Shafer from UNC-Wilmington's Center for Marine Science Research are studying the changes a crab undergoes when it sheds and what controls the hardening of its new shell.
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1685
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Sea Grant specialists Walter Clark and Barbara Doll will be analyzing the state's management of its coastal areas and resources. Target subjects include wetlands, special area management, cumulative impacts of development, and ocean resources planning.
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1686
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Using a copy of the North Carolina Geological Survey's \"Fossil Collecting in North Carolina,\" the author visits various fossil sites in the state and reports her findings.
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1687
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North Carolina boasts the third largest estuarine system in the United States. The state has 2.3 million acres of estuaries, from which come ninety percent of commercial and recreational species of fish and shellfish.
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1688
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Lundie Spence, a North Carolina Sea Grant marine education specialist, will lead a team of instructors and students from the Triangle area to the International Teachers Rain Forest Workshop in Iquitos, Peru. Spence will lead a workshop on tropical soils.
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1864
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Eastern North Carolina crab house owners are turning to labor imported from Mexico as a remedy for the dearth of willing crab pickers in this part of the state.
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1865
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Eighty-three year-old Llewellyn \"Miss Lue\" Lewis, whose husband owns the Luther Lewis & Son crab plant in Davis, starting picking crabs at age fifty and now teaches the art to new pickers.
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1866
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Aquaculturists are charged a fee for using state-owned waters; yet dock and marina owners are not required to pay such a fee. This is about to change, however, as North Carolina is on the verge of passing a law to charge marinas for the water they occupy.
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1867
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The authors address the issue of the private use of public waters, using the public trust doctrine to provide a context. The public trust doctrine determines the extent of a state's control over its public waters.
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1868
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N.C. Sea Grant fish pathologists have discovered a microscopic animal that paralyzes fish with toxins and sucks away their flesh. The creature, dinoflagellate, is known to scientists, but its heretofore unknown predatory behavior shocked the researchers
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1869
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North Carolina's oyster production has declined at an alarming rate since the turn of the century. N.C. Sea Grant, the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, and other interested parties convened a summit to address the state's feeble oyster industry.
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1879
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JoAnn Burkholder, a N.C. Sea Grant researcher, received a 1994 Outstanding Research Award from the N.C. State University Alumni Association for her involvement in various research projects around the state.
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1979
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The competition for space that pits humans against wildlife often results in injury to the animals. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has issued over 500 permits to people who doctor and rehabilitate the state's wild animals.
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1980
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Attempting to aid an injured animal is potentially dangerous. If one is unsure of what type of assistance to render, wildlife managers recommend finding a qualified person, such as a staff member of the Carolina Raptor Center, to assist.
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1996
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Marine debris has a worldwide impact on wildlife, economics, the environment, aesthetics, and public health. In May of 1994, individuals from around the globe met in Miami to discuss this growing problem and to recommend possible solutions.
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