Sandra Harris

Dec 15, 2007

LOCAL CATCH: Watermen Save Ocracoke Fish House

Local captains, who work the Pamlico Sound and surrounding waters, supply all the catch at Ocracoke Seafood. Recently, the group of 35 full and parttime commercial fishermen — who joined together to form the Ocracoke Working Watermen's Association — netted $325,000 from a grant to save the last fish house on the island.

Dec 15, 2007

Coastal Legacy: Science Meets History, Culture

In a sandy area behind an old Chicamacomico lifesaving building in Rodanthe, Terri Kirby Hathaway and several teachers stand behind a short-barreled cannon. They demonstrate how to fire the rope…

Dec 15, 2007

Bounty of Birds: Guide, Trail Help Consumers Take Flight

The birding trail on Bear Island is featured in the new North Carolina Birding Trail — Coastal Plain Trail Guide. Filled with colorful photos, the guide includes 102 birding sites in 16 groupings across the North Carolina coastal plain — all areas east of interstate 95.

Dec 1, 2007

Cracking the Culvert: Urban Stream Restoration in North Carolina

At different points in their histories, Little Sugar Creek and Rocky Branch represent the best and worst of North Carolina streams. Both creeks run through bustling cities. Both have been listed among the state's most polluted urban streams. And both waterways were forced into pipes and buried underground to pave the way for progress. Few people even knew they existed.

Dec 1, 2007

SEA SCIENCE: No One Ring: Testing The Effects Of Cull Rings On Crab Landings

Under a blue September sky, Phil Smith is hard at work, harvesting blue crabs under the Cape Fear River. "They are fantastic creatures," he says, predicting:  "If we all dropped off the face of the Earth and all there was was nice and clean water, crabs would be so abundant" their shells would fill coastal waters.

Dec 1, 2007

ONE-STOP SERVICE: Marine Parks Cater to Boaters

When True World Marine president Takeru Kamiyama began looking for a new location for a manufacturing facility, intuition told him that a North Carolina site would meet his needs.

Dec 1, 2007

Curbing the Import Appetite: Selling American Shrimp in the U.S. Market

Pink shrimp. Brown shrimp. White shrimp. Ecuadorian shrimp. Vietnamese shrimp. Can you tell the difference?  Most Americans can't. But who cares? Shrimp is shrimp, right?

Dec 1, 2007

Wild Caught: The Life and Struggles of An American Fishing Town

For centuries, small-scale commercial fishers have ventured forth into the Atlantic to hunt for shrimp and finfish. Recently, they forces of modernity — from ever-tightening regulations to a rise im imported seafood to explosive coastal growth — have threatened their proud way of life.

Oct 1, 2007

PEOPLE & PLACES: Queen’s Quest: Human Dimensions in Coastal Science

Under Queen's leadership, East Carolina University's Institute for Coastal & Marine Resources (ICMR) researchers put social science issues on the table.

Oct 1, 2007

SEA SCIENCE: Aquatic Robotics: Teens Plunge into Technology

The Cape Hatteras Secondary students are practicing for a ROV contest organized by the Marine Advanced Technology Center (MATE). Manteo High School students also are participating in the practice session.