. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Bill Rickards Walt Jones UNC Sea Grant Program John Foster 1235 Burlington Labora- tories Box 2494 State University New Bern- 28560 Raleigh, 27607 633-0414 737-2454 Eel farming Walt Jones, John Foster and Bill Rickards are en- gaged in a pretty unusual project: They're trying to see if you can farm eels—raise them from tiny elvers to marketable size in enclosed ponds—in coastal North Carolina. They've got an experimental eel farm where right now thousands of the squirmy fish are growing. Eel
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Bill Rickards Walt Jones UNC Sea Grant Program John Foster 1235 Burlington Labora- tories Box 2494 State University New Bern- 28560 Raleigh, 27607 633-0414 737-2454 Eel farming Walt Jones, John Foster and Bill Rickards are en- gaged in a pretty unusual project: They're trying to see if you can farm eels—raise them from tiny elvers to marketable size in enclosed ponds—in coastal North Carolina. They've got an experimental eel farm where right now thousands of the squirmy fish are growing. Eels, you see, are a hot export item for European mar- kets and are in demand as sport fishing bait in this country. But while Jones, Foster and Rickards are engrossed in all aspects of raising eels—including food prepara- tion, elver harvesting, disease analysis and treatment and pond construction—they don't just want to sit on their findings. Their eel farm in New Bern is open as a demonstration unit for anyone who might be interested in eel farming—and they're eager to share what they've learned. Jones and Foster are headquartered at the New Bern demonstration farm. Rickards is at the Sea Grant office in Raleigh, where he doubles as assistant program direc- tor. They're all open to questions. "trash" fish, or testing new ways to detect seafood deterioration. Questions about harvesting wild eels should be di- rected to Skipper Crow. He can help with building traps, baiting, fishing and marketing eels from Carolina 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 resemble the original UNC Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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