. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Wayne Wescott Murray Bridges of Colington knows the story, too. He's a crab shedder who fishes in the off-season. The flounder he's been catching aren't bringing the prices expected. Bridges looks ahead to crab season. And Wescott can help. His assignment: check on a chemical that may spur crabs to molt and find out something about raising crabs from eggs. 3:30 David Green steps inside a warehouse-sized freezer at a Beau- fort fish processing plant. The freezer is empty now, but it may eventually hold
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Wayne Wescott Murray Bridges of Colington knows the story, too. He's a crab shedder who fishes in the off-season. The flounder he's been catching aren't bringing the prices expected. Bridges looks ahead to crab season. And Wescott can help. His assignment: check on a chemical that may spur crabs to molt and find out something about raising crabs from eggs. 3:30 David Green steps inside a warehouse-sized freezer at a Beau- fort fish processing plant. The freezer is empty now, but it may eventually hold thousands of pounds of menhaden for use as bait or perhaps even as a food fish. Menhaden, the most-caught fish in the state, is used mainly for fish meal and oil. Recently the industry has hit hard times. David Green is working to change David Green (right) "The industry has realized it can't live on meal and oil. But if it can diver- sify, it might be able to stay afloat," says Green. He is working with local processors to improve onboard handling of men- haden so that a food-grade product reaches the docks. 4 In the past few hours, Marine Advisory Director Jim Murray has had eight phone 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 Sea Grant College Program. [Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program]
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