. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Extending Knowledge to the Coastal Community As he drives past a mountain of wood chips at the Morehead City poit, Skip Kemp's eyes brighten for a moment. "Hey. Oysters like to settle on wood. If I could use wood chips for cultch material. ." He fishes a notebook from his hip pocket and writes, steadying the steering wheel with his other hand. "If I don't write it down, I'll forget it," he says, laughing. "I must be getting ; Ideas are a major pan of Kemp's job. As a Sea G
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Extending Knowledge to the Coastal Community As he drives past a mountain of wood chips at the Morehead City poit, Skip Kemp's eyes brighten for a moment. "Hey. Oysters like to settle on wood. If I could use wood chips for cultch material. ." He fishes a notebook from his hip pocket and writes, steadying the steering wheel with his other hand. "If I don't write it down, I'll forget it," he says, laughing. "I must be getting ; Ideas are a major pan of Kemp's job. As a Sea Grant Marine Advisory Seivice agent, he's expected to help others come up with better ways to use coastal resources. Recently, he assembled his years of practical and applied research into a manual on how to raise hard clams on leased estuarine bottom. The manual, published by Sea Grant, is going like hotcakes. These days, Kemp is concentrating on growing more and better oysters on that same estuarine lease. "We've pretty much got clams down pat," he says. "Now, we want to grow more ; He pulls into the driveway at Charlie G. Brown's home near Harker's Island. Brown walks with Kemp to the shallow sound bottom behind the house. The tide is low, and several clam and oys- ter beds are exposed to the morning sun. He calls the Brown "farm" an ideal situation. "The water is right; the bottom is sandy. It's just that, until now, there was nothing for the oyster spat to settle on. Since we laid out this cultch material, this place will be productive for ; He turns over a few cultch shells. Oysters are forming in clusters on some of them. The method seems to be "We've got a long way to go to in oyster culture," Kemp says. "But we keep working on ; Here are a few of Kemp's tips on how you can raise oysters — for your own use or for sale — on leased estuarine bottom. • Check the area to see if the
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