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19355
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Clinton Willis is the president of the Carteret County Waterman's Association. Willis is an advocate and representative of Carteret County commercial fishers, bringing their views and concerns before committees of the state like the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission.
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19356
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The first line of defense on the North Carolina coast against powerful seas induced by storms is sand dunes. And that's a concept NC Sea Grant and the NC Division of Coastal Management have been drumming into North Carolinian's heads for the past twenty five years. This article discusses the importance of dunes in coastal engineering for North Carolina.
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19357
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Although North Carolina is not a national leader in number of thunderstorms per year, it consistently ranks second in lightening deaths per year. Reasons for this phenomenon are due to recreation and agriculture. Due to long warm seasons, recreationalists are often outdoors during lightening season. Additionally, as North Carolina is an agricultural state, more people are likely to be in open fields when a storm hits.
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19358
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On the southernmost tip of New Hanover County, a narrow strip of land bordered by the Cape Fear River on one side and that Atlantic on the other, holds the Confederate constructed Fort Fisher. Only the last battle took place over 125 years ago, Fort Fisher is still under attack, this time by the relentless bombarding of the sea and erosion that threatens to sink it into the ocean.
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19359
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In December of 1864 Union soldiers headed for New Inlet in an attempt to seize one of the last Confederate forts that protected the thriving port of Wilmington, but Fort Fisher stood in their way. Peters discusses the construction of Fort Fisher and why it stands today to tell the story of the last major stronghold of the Confederacy.
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19360
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The best just got better in North Carolina. Recently 200,000 acres of coastal rivers and lakes in the state have been designated as \"outstanding resource waters.\" Seven bodies of water from Alligator River to Masonboro Sound provide extra protections against degradation and promote the maintenance of water quality.
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19365
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The Tar-Pamlico River is in trouble; fewer and fewer schools of fish are filling the fishermen's nets and dead fish are fouling the waters. The cause: human abuse and pollution.
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19366
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North Carolina's Sea Grant Program is starting the 1990s off with a bang. Research projects will be solving water quality problems, developing new seafood products, discovery why fish stocks fluctuate, and building aquaculture into a successful enterprise in the state.
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19367
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Estuaries are the world's most fertile undersea environments, where fish and other ocean creatures migrate to feed and grow. Despite their importance and abundance in the state, North Carolina did not protect estuaries until the 1980s. But by 1987 North Carolina wrapped a protective ring around more than 128,000 acres of estuaries; however, it struggles to maintain this protection.
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19368
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The Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds of North Carolina are dynamic mergers of water, wind, and currents that prompt the growth of many fish species. Edgerton discusses how fish migration into these sounds from birth in the Gulf of Mexico.
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19369
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Much of the estuary floors in North Carolina are covered with seagrass, which harbor many of the state's most important recreational and commercial species of fish and shellfish. But these grasses are being destroyed by pollution, dredging, and coastal development.
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19370
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Once upon a time, the shallow waters of Currituck Sound were clear, drinkable, and harbored abundant fish. Thanks to the native submerged seagrasses, ecology in the Sound flourished. Through the years, the quality of Currituck Sound has hinged on the survival of the Sound's seagrass beds, and its ups and downs.
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19371
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The schools of river herring once came in droves to the waters of North Carolina but recently the river herring catch has plummeted by more than 1.4 million pounds. Causes of river herring reduction come from water pollution that causes blue-green algae to deplete the oxygen supply to eggs and young fish, while dams and other water projects have altered the natural flow of rivers that alter the natural instincts of the herring.
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19372
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A little digging in coastal North Carolina shows that some communities rest on herring bones. Burgess discusses the history the herring fishery in North Carolina.
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19375
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Lake Mattamuskeet shines like a silver bowl in the North Carolina swamp land, and has long been the fall and winter home of millions of migratory birds. Now biologists and refuge officials are attempting to maintain the quality and abundance of migratory birds from the threat of hunting and human encroachment.
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