. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Future studies may show the impacts of such releases on wild stock. The sea bass research represents a progression from commercial fishing to aquaculture. In the first FRG project, small but legal-sized black sea bass trapped by Snow demonstrated successful growth rates when given practical, commercially available feed. A second study showed the fish are tolerant of relatively high stocking densities. Now, a new FRG project is focusing on spawning, using some of the original wild-caught stock. APPLYING SCI
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Future studies may show the impacts of such releases on wild stock. The sea bass research represents a progression from commercial fishing to aquaculture. In the first FRG project, small but legal-sized black sea bass trapped by Snow demonstrated successful growth rates when given practical, commercially available feed. A second study showed the fish are tolerant of relatively high stocking densities. Now, a new FRG project is focusing on spawning, using some of the original wild-caught stock. APPLYING SCIENCE "I think the best thing I've enjoyed about this project is that everything I've said (about black sea bass) has been proven right," says Snow. One thing that impresses Snow is how many additional people it takes to increase the scientific validity of an FRG project like his — North Carolina Sea Grant staff, academic researchers like Watanabe to design and oversee the experiments, and students who do much of the lab work. Kim Copeland was a graduate student in marine biology when she started working on the project at the beginning, in 1999. Watanabe says her work has been "crucial" to the project's success. Now a research associate, Copeland has witnessed the growth of the project and of the black sea bass — from weighing and measuring the fish to compiling and analyzing the data. She went out a couple of times with Snow to see how black sea bass trapping was done, and hauled the fresh catch back to the university's Wrightsville Beach lab. From what she's seen, she agrees with Snow that these are some resilient creatures. Most fish species brought in to the lab require "feed-training," she says, and must be introduced to artificial feed 4^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly
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