. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. N. C. Doc NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY RALEIGH V& @B» [P[3®©C3/aMI GE\M,[iTrmiD3 July, 1976. Sea Grant advisory agent Hughes Tillet lifts a rack of oysters for inspection. 1235 Burlington Laboratories NCSU, Raleigh, 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2U5U Growing Your Own . . Clams and Oysters Inlanders put in their okra and cabbage seeds; folks on the coast are planting seed oysters and clams in an experiment in shellfish gardening on the North Carolina Outer Banks. The experiment began in the Pamlico Sound wh
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. N. C. Doc NORTH CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY RALEIGH V& @B» [P[3®©C3/aMI GE\M,[iTrmiD3 July, 1976. Sea Grant advisory agent Hughes Tillet lifts a rack of oysters for inspection. 1235 Burlington Laboratories NCSU, Raleigh, 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2U5U Growing Your Own . . Clams and Oysters Inlanders put in their okra and cabbage seeds; folks on the coast are planting seed oysters and clams in an experiment in shellfish gardening on the North Carolina Outer Banks. The experiment began in the Pamlico Sound when Sea Grant advisory agents Sumner Midgett and Hughes Tillet sowed 50,000 clams smaller than half an inch in the sand behind Lawrence Lee Austin's Hatteras home. Midgett and Tillet had intended to scatter the infant clams inside a protec- tive wire pen, but the clams arrived before the pen did. The Sea Grant team learned an important lesson when all 50,000 clams were wiped out; pro- tective pens are important to the success of cul- tured clams. That was three years ago and Midgett and Til- let are continuing to learn about clam, and more recently, oyster aquaculture. Through Sea Grant and Pocket of Excellence funds, ten people from Oregon Inlet to Atlantic have started clam and oyster gardens and one—Lawrence Lee Austin— has already reaped the benefits of a harvest. Austin won't say exactly how much he profited from the sale of his cultured clams, but he was encouraged enough to wade through two and a half years of red tape to get a state lease for acres of bottom land. Austin plans to gradually find the best places on his acreage for gardening and—if the economics work out—turn clam and oyster farming into a full-time occupation. (See "From Seed," page 5). 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 resem
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