. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Bob Mines (left) After a short ride to a vacant lot in Morehead City, Hines and the fisher- men pull out this newfangled net and spread it on the ground. It's a floating pound net. Commer- cial fishermen use the nets in New Eng- land sounds. Hines will test this one to see if it will catch schooling fish such as bluefish and spot offshore here. Today Hines checks the net for torn spots, floats and leads. It will take days of work before the net is Walter Clark (left) 2 Walter Clark greets a pa
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Bob Mines (left) After a short ride to a vacant lot in Morehead City, Hines and the fisher- men pull out this newfangled net and spread it on the ground. It's a floating pound net. Commer- cial fishermen use the nets in New Eng- land sounds. Hines will test this one to see if it will catch schooling fish such as bluefish and spot offshore here. Today Hines checks the net for torn spots, floats and leads. It will take days of work before the net is Walter Clark (left) 2 Walter Clark greets a packed class of State University students. Sea Grant's coastal law specialist gives a legal perspective to a marine re- sources class taught with cohort Lun- die Spence. Today's topic is the Law of the Sea. Clark carefully explains the Law of the Sea Treaty, territorial rights and re- source exploitation. Then he adds a touch of reahty. The scene: a mock Law of the Sea Conference. The players: seven stu- dents representing seven nations. The goal: to determine who profits from deep-sea mining. In the end, the students learned that negotiating is tough, that the issues are real, and that they can make a dif- ference. 3 Helping commercial fisher- men comes natural to Wayne Wescott. A coastal native, Wescott started crab- bing when he was 9 years old. His father was a commercial fisherman and owned a fish house in Manteo. You can tell Wescott likes his job when he talks to Moon Tillett, a suc- cessful fisherman from Wanchese. This afternoon, Wescott checks on some gear Tillett's been testing. The gear is stashed away, but out in front is the fisherman's latest beef — the low prices the catch is bringing. Wescott hears him out and offers some 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
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