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Spring 2007
oyster larvae

Spring 2007

Drifting Along: Sea Grant Scientists Study Oyster Larvae

Two U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary members prepare to retrieve a drifter with a ball and drogue, or neutrally buoyant float suspended below the water surface. One man drops a net into the water and then scoops up a drift buoy, known as a drifter. Then both men lift the 40-pound drifter onto the deck.

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image: person fishing in the ocean during sunset.

Waterfront Access: Meetings Highlight Spectrum of Needs

People seeking access — for commercial and recreational fishing, seafood handling, paddling, boating, operating marine-related businesses or simply wading in sound and river waters — shared their recent public comment sessions held along the coast.
North Carolina's estuarine shoreline

Finding Flounder: Testing Low-Profile Gill Nets

Well before sunrise, the Engelhard resident is already at work in the sound's choppy waters. He removes an orange and black buoy attached to the end of one of his gill nets and reels it in with the white winch on his boat.
Crystal skippers sip nectar from native N.C. plants such as coastal plain dewberry.

NATURALIST’S NOTEBOOK: Bogue’s New Butterfly

The strategic location of Fort Macon on the eastern end of Bogue Banks may have protected Confederate troops from the Union during the civil war, but today its status as a state park protects what may be a new species of butterfly.