. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Ronald Cockfield Charlie Powell lights hanging from the mast and the wires illuminate the back deck for work. First mate Charlie Powell makes a final check of the nets, making sure the tailbag rope is secure. No one wants to lose a single shrimp tonight. Along the side of the boat, Powell readies the "tickle" chain, so called because it drags the ocean floor "tick- ling" the shrimp off the bottom and into the net. Cockfield is running the Miss Bozy just offshore toward Carolina Beach. P
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Ronald Cockfield Charlie Powell lights hanging from the mast and the wires illuminate the back deck for work. First mate Charlie Powell makes a final check of the nets, making sure the tailbag rope is secure. No one wants to lose a single shrimp tonight. Along the side of the boat, Powell readies the "tickle" chain, so called because it drags the ocean floor "tick- ling" the shrimp off the bottom and into the net. Cockfield is running the Miss Bozy just offshore toward Carolina Beach. Powell points to several towers of blinking lights that emit loran navigational readings. "Ronald usually puts the nets down when we pull alongside those towers," the 20- year-old first mate says. And to prove the first mate right, the motor slows just as the trawler pulls even with the towers. Cockfield emerges from the pilot house to help Powell lower the nets into the ocean. The sound of grinding winches fills the night air. First each set of otter doors are hoisted to the end of the outriggers. Placed at each side of the mouth of the net, the wooden doors aid in keeping the net open and on the bottom. Next, the main body of the right net is lowered into the waves. The right tailbag follows. The procedure is repeated for the left net. The Miss Bozy is a double-rig trawler. She pulls two 75-foot nets. With the nets in position, Cockfield lowers the doors into place. A marking on the steel towing line lets the captain know when the nets are the right dis- tance from the boat and its propellers. Off the left side of the boat Cockfield drops the try net. The try net, a 16- foot miniature version of the large nets, catches a small sampling of what the larger nets catch. Pulled up every 30 minutes to an hour, the try net gives the captain a good idea what he's catching and whether he should con- tinue trawling in a certain area. With all the nets in the water, Cockfield r
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