. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. "The Back Page" is an update on Sea Grant activities—on research, marine education and advisory services. It's also a good place to find out about meetings, workshops and new publications. For more information on any of the projects described, contact the Sea Grant offices in Raleigh (919/737-2454). For copies of pub- lications, write UNC Sea Grant, Box 8605, NCSU, Raleigh, 27695-8605. When North Carolina's shrimp fishermen haul in their nets, they usually catch more than just shrimp. Fin- f
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. "The Back Page" is an update on Sea Grant activities—on research, marine education and advisory services. It's also a good place to find out about meetings, workshops and new publications. For more information on any of the projects described, contact the Sea Grant offices in Raleigh (919/737-2454). For copies of pub- lications, write UNC Sea Grant, Box 8605, NCSU, Raleigh, 27695-8605. When North Carolina's shrimp fishermen haul in their nets, they usually catch more than just shrimp. Fin- fish and other sea creatures are caught with them. For shrimpers, the bycatch can be a nuisance. Because they're only after shrimp, they cull the other fish and toss them back into the water. Some of the by- catch don't survive. Also, culling is time- consuming for shrimpers; and too much bycatch can reduce the quality of the shrimp catch. But shrimpers aren't alone in concerns over bycatch. Fishermen who seek the species thrown overboard by shrimpers say reduced bycatch will increase the number of fish they haul in. That's where Sea Grant comes in. Marine Advisory Service agent Jim Bahen and others are beginning to gather ideas from shrimpers on how their gear can be im- proved to separate finfish from shrimp nets. Since November, some progress has been made. With the Division of Marine Fisheries, Sea Grant set up a by- catch advisory committee that held its first meeting December 12. During the meeting, committee mem- bers compared notes on the status of by- catch research and agreed to hold a workshop later in the year. Meanwhile, Bahen continues his investi- gations into ways to construct finfish separator devices that could reduce by- catch by 50 percent. He hopes to come up with at least three designs that will be tested in laboratories and on commercial shrimping vessels. "The key to the project's success will be. the ideas we obtain while interviewing shrimpe
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