. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. When it comes to seafood, North Carolina and Japan have a lot to talk about. That's why Frank Thomas, project director of seafood science and technology for UNC Sea Grant's marine advisory services, is studying Japanese. Thomas, along with 18 other North Carolina State University faculty members, have been invited to spend the fall semester of 1981 in Japan. The trip is part of a university program es- tablished to link North Carolina and Japan more closely in a range of fields, from food science to textil
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. When it comes to seafood, North Carolina and Japan have a lot to talk about. That's why Frank Thomas, project director of seafood science and technology for UNC Sea Grant's marine advisory services, is studying Japanese. Thomas, along with 18 other North Carolina State University faculty members, have been invited to spend the fall semester of 1981 in Japan. The trip is part of a university program es- tablished to link North Carolina and Japan more closely in a range of fields, from food science to textiles manage- ment. Thomas will share with the Japanese the latest in American seafood technology, and will in exchange, bring home Japanese innovations. He will visit fishing vessels, processing plants and laboratories. He will also bring home a deeper understanding of Japanese culture—an understanding that he believes will help professionals develop new markets for North Carolina seafood and keep information flowing between the two peoples. For Thomas, the trip will tie in nicely with a liaison he established with Japan in 1968. Through that ef- fort. North Carolina and Japan have already traded ideas and technology related to minced fish, seafood process- ing techniques and market develop- ment for underused species of fish. It read like a movie script. Loudspeakers blasted warnings to swimmers to stay out of the surf as schools of sharks roamed the waters close to the North Carolina shoreline. But the situation was real and danger was present. The North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries called the shark alert, the first one ever, August 9, after Dr. Frank Schwartz of the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences reported finding an unusual. number of sharks near the shore. Schwartz said the high temperatures in July and August had driven up water temperatures and driven away the shark's normal food supply. The search for food coupled with an onshore curre
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