. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Tracing the secrets of shells, fish and sportsmen Among the natural resources con- centrated in North Carolina's es- tuaries, recreational fishing ranks as one of the most important. This year, a Sea Grant research team will study the resource by going straight to the peo- ple who enjoy it—the people who spend their leisure hours fishing the state's sounds. Following up last year's study of offshore fishing and tournament fishing, Peter Fricke, an ECU sociologist, Leon Abbas, Sea Grant's recreational and e
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Tracing the secrets of shells, fish and sportsmen Among the natural resources con- centrated in North Carolina's es- tuaries, recreational fishing ranks as one of the most important. This year, a Sea Grant research team will study the resource by going straight to the peo- ple who enjoy it—the people who spend their leisure hours fishing the state's sounds. Following up last year's study of offshore fishing and tournament fishing, Peter Fricke, an ECU sociologist, Leon Abbas, Sea Grant's recreational and economic specialist, and James Sabella, a University of North Carolina at Wilmington anthropologist, will be conducting a similar socio-economic study of sound fishing. They will be surveying fishermen to find out who fishes in the sounds, where they are from, how much they spend in local businesses while they're fishing and what type of fish they are hoping to reel in. The researchers feel this type of information can be used by local and regional planners to provide for things like boat ramps and fishing access areas as well as for more com- plicated things like zoning for economic activity. In another part of the study, Fricke, Abbas and Sabella will be paying par- ticular attention to the recreational and commercial striped bass fishery. There has been growing national con- cern over the decline of striped bass in eastern United States sounds. This study, along with others in Maryland and Virginia, will attempt to answer some questions needed for better management and revitalization of the fishery. Striped bass aren't the only fish on the decline in North Carolina sounds. Commercial catches of river herring are also on the downswing. Past declines were attributed to intense offshore fishing of river herring by foreign vessels. But controls im- plemented by the 200-mile limit in 1975 lessened offshore fishing pressure. The river herring catches, however, did not respond and
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