. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. A Mullet Camp During the fall mullet runs, the Bankers set up temporary camps made of small thatched huts near the beach. Using nets 150 and 200 yards long, the fishermen seined the nearshore waters. After making the catch, the Bankers would clean, salt and pack the mullet in barrels for shipment to inland whaling was limited to four months a year, it provided the Bankers with a profitable income. One whale could yield from $1,000 to $2,000 in whalebone and oil. The oil was used as fuel for lamps
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. A Mullet Camp During the fall mullet runs, the Bankers set up temporary camps made of small thatched huts near the beach. Using nets 150 and 200 yards long, the fishermen seined the nearshore waters. After making the catch, the Bankers would clean, salt and pack the mullet in barrels for shipment to inland whaling was limited to four months a year, it provided the Bankers with a profitable income. One whale could yield from $1,000 to $2,000 in whalebone and oil. The oil was used as fuel for lamps. The bone was shaped into corsets, dress hoops and umbrella ribs. The remainder of the whale was sold for fertilizer. The Bankers also caught porpoises for processing in a small factory that was located on Shackleford Banks. Like the whales, the porpoises yielded large quantities of oil that could be used to fuel lamps. The mullet fishery proved to be profitable for the Bankers. The Cape Lookout Bight formed a natural trap that supplied the banker fishermen with an abun- dance of mullet and other fish. Salted mullet became a specialty that made the Bankers famous all along the East coast. They took special care in cleaning, salting and packing the mullet. While Cape Lookout became noted for its abun- dance of fish, it also garnered less favorable recogni- tion as a treacherous shoreline. And added to the danger of the shoals was the fact that the profile of the land was so low that even in clear weather a ship might be on the shoals before the captain realized his vessel was close to land. To aid mariners in their navigation of the cape, Congress authorized the erection of a lighthouse. The lighthouse was completed in 1812 and consisted of two towers, one brick and the other wooden. The wooden building was painted in red-and-white horizontal stripes. Mariners soon found fault with this lighthouse, say- ing its structure was too short to make its light visible for long distance
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