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Tar Heel Blue Crabs: Still the State’s Most Valuable Seafood

Dave Shaw

Aug 19, 2014

Explore NC’s Coastal Weather and Climate with Jess Whitehead

My first experience communicating about coastal hazards to the public was as a child in 1989, relaying reports from the Weather Channel over the phone to my neighborhood friends in Charleston, SC who remained home during Hurricane Hugo but lost power.

Aug 18, 2014

NC Sea Grant, Bringing it to the People

Susan White, blogger newbie. Old dog, new tricks. Is it possible? I suppose we’ll find out here. As someone who held on with a tight grip to her flip phone until…

Jul 25, 2014

Rip Currents: Data and Deployments

Rebecca Nagy explains how data-logging drifters monitor rip currents — and shares footage that UNCW graduate student Cobi Christiansen shot while getting these loggers into the water.
A can filled with blue crabs.

Apr 29, 2014

Tar Heel Blue Crabs: Still the State’s Most Valuable Seafood

What happens to blue crabs when they are landed by North Carolina crabbers? Where are they processed? Where do they go? Jerry Allegood traces the flow of this crustacean — hard, soft and picked.