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Stepping Up the Pace for Coastal Water Quality

2009

Scallops

Jun 3, 2014

Return of the Bay Scallops

Bay scallops have been enjoyed in North Carolina since the time when our state's only inhabitants were Native Americans. However, North Carolina's bay scallops have experienced years of low numbers.
Cooked shrimp that was prepared in parchment.

Dec 15, 2009

MARINER’S MENU: New Blog Features Fresh Seafood Ideas and More

People who are eating healthier are including more seafood in their diets, says blog contributor Barry Nash. And with the struggling economy, consumers are eating more meals at home.
ant

Dec 15, 2009

NATURALIST’S NOTEBOOK: Coastal Invasion: The Argentine Ant

They’ve hit shore, creeping with stealth onto the lawns of unwary Outer Banks residents, with their populations of hundreds, or hundreds of thousands, or even millions of individuals, all hungry. Soon, the lawn is not enough. They trickle into coastal homes, a steady stream growing stronger by the day. People begin finding them in sinks and cereal boxes, trespassing on car seats and creeping across crepe myrtle.
image: Bottlenose dolphin.

Dec 15, 2009

A POUND OF PREVENTION

Now Barco is at the frontline of preventing some dolphin injuries from happening in the first place. Bottlenose dolphins near Virginia Beach must co-exist with commercial fishers. Yet some stranded dolphins are being found with tangles and scars from pound nets, a crucial fishing gear in the region.
Pitt County students

Dec 15, 2009

SEA SCIENCE: Aquatic Science Within Reach: Fisheries Research Provides Classroom Lessons

As part of research funded by North Carolina Sea Grant, biologist Anthony Overton and science educator Rhea Miles are fine-tuning lesson plans and products field tested with students in a science camp.

She-Crab Soup in white bowl on a blue napkin.

Dec 1, 2009

Mariner’s Menu: Seafood Soups: A Fine Kettle of Fish & Shellfish

Chock full of vegetables and seafood, soups and stews make a hearty meal. On a cold day, a hot bowl of scallop bisque or old-fashioned clam chowder needs only a good crusty bread or cornbread to round it out.
juncus roemerianus seedling

Dec 1, 2009

SEA SCIENCE: RESEARCH GROWS FUTURE SCIENTISTS

In environmentally controlled growth chambers at Elon University in the piedmont, far from its usual habitat in the upper intertidal zones of estuaries, black needlerush, Juncus roemerianus, seedlings are growing — slowly.
fishing boats

Dec 1, 2009

PEOPLE & PLACES: No Haunting, Just History

FISHERMEN LIKE TO TEASE JACQUELINE MARCOTTE ABOUT HER research into junked and sunken boats in remote creeks along the Pungo River in Beaufort County.
Roanoke River

Dec 1, 2009

Otolith IDs: Tracing Elements of Prime Habitat

John Mohan, a graduate student at East Carolina University, checks a probe monitoring the temperature and dissolved oxygen in a tub aboard a boat in Batchelor Bay. In the tub swim some silvery juvenile striped bass that Mohan picked up earlier that morning from the Edenton National Fish Hatchery. Ten are intended for each of two research cages in the bay.

Dec 1, 2009

Stepping Up the Pace for Coastal Water Quality

It's that time of year when the winter chill might prompt stepping up the pace of a walk on the beach or choosing a heavier coat for a day on the fishing pier.