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Masonboro Island: Measuring Shifting Sands

Fall 2011

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.
Steamed Flounder with Ginger

Sep 1, 2011

Mariner’s Menu: Enjoy Autumn’s Bounty

The following recipes from Mariner's Menu: 30 Years of Fresh Seafood Ideas by Joyce Taylor use finfish and shellfish that are available from North Carolina's waters in September through November. Talk to your local seafood vendors about their freshest offerings.
Crowds sample shrimp and Texas Pete cocktail sauce.

Sep 1, 2011

LOCAL CATCH: Start Your Appetites: Fall for Food, Fun and Festivities

From Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, the North Carolina Seafood Festival will continue its tradition started in 1987, of feeding and entertaining crowds along Morehead City's waterfront.
Environmental Cleanup

Sep 1, 2011

A Really Big Sweep

Operating statewide as the nonprofit North Carolina Big Sweep since 1989, the effort has tallied more than 300,000 volunteers and collected over 10.3 million pounds of trash.
Crab pots in Hatteras Village.

Sep 1, 2011

Hatteras Students Use Social Media to Communicate Island’s Story

Islander Susan West, an author, journalist and blogger, coordinates Hatteras Connection, a pioneering community-based, sustainable economic development and environmental stewardship project that includes the youth team's efforts.
Kids can't wait to get into the GeoDome during the Museum of the Albemarle's Day at the Beach event.

Sep 1, 2011

Advancing Environmental Literacy: Informal Educators Add New Technology to Teaching Toolboxes

Two groups of North Carolina informal educators experienced that excitement firsthand through 10 days of training — one group in 2010, one in 2011 — with the Marine Mammal Institute, participating in face-to-face encounters with belugas and other marine mammals at Atlantic seaboard museums and aquariums.
sand surverying

Sep 1, 2011

Masonboro Island: Measuring Shifting Sands

It's not far-fetched to say that Kristen Lauren Hall knows the dynamic recent history of nearly every meter of Masonboro Island, a barrier island along the coastline in southeast New Hanover County.