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Spring 2001

Spring 2001

SEA SCIENCE: Oyster Reef Restoration: A Sound Investment

The state invests around $700,000 each year restoring ever-diminishing oyster reefs. But the total annual oyster harvest is not much more than that — about $800,000 to $900,000 — and most does not come from restored reefs, according to Mike Marshall, fisheries biologist for the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF). The math can make oyster reef restoration appear less than profitable.

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Mattamuskeet Lodge

FISHING FOR CREDIT: ECU Students Explore Lake Mattamuskeet

That's good news to Roger Rulifson, East Carolina University professor of biology and director of the Field Station for Coastal Studies at the Lake Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge. He's hoping to begin research to help pinpoint — and control — a parasite that is taking a heavy toll on the once abundant eel fishery.
Wrightsville Beach bridge

THE GREAT DIVIDERS: OLD-FASHIONED DRAWBRIDGES DWINDLING ALONG COAST

Perched in a tiny wood building high on the edge of the Wrightsville Beach bridge, Nancy Cayton focuses her binoculars south toward the Intracoastal Waterway.