. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Kor the past four years, Sea Grant re- searchers have been ex- perimenting with the culture of American eels for export to European and Oriental food mar- kets. The eel farm now has new head- quarters at the Pamlico Estuarine Lab- oratory on the shore of South Creek near Aurora. This year two new aqua- culture projects have gotten started there and the site is on its way to be- coming an aquaculture center for east- ern North Carolina. With mini-grant funds, eel farm re- searchers recently have begun a stu
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Kor the past four years, Sea Grant re- searchers have been ex- perimenting with the culture of American eels for export to European and Oriental food mar- kets. The eel farm now has new head- quarters at the Pamlico Estuarine Lab- oratory on the shore of South Creek near Aurora. This year two new aqua- culture projects have gotten started there and the site is on its way to be- coming an aquaculture center for east- ern North Carolina. With mini-grant funds, eel farm re- searchers recently have begun a study to see whether coho salmon and rain- bow trout can be succesfully raised in eastern North Carolina. Three hun- dred salmon and 150 trout now are be- ing raised in cages in the canals which carry water pumped out of Texas- gulf's open pit phosphate mine. The real test will come this summer when water temperatures are expected to rise close to the upper tolerance level of these fish. Also at the Aurora site, fisheries biol- ogists Howard Kerby and Mel Huish of North Carolina State University (NCSU) are conducting experiments to see whether striped bass hybrids can be successfully raised as a food crop. I n a related study, researchers at the UNC-CH Law School have re- viewed North Carolina's laws affecting mariculture, the cultivation of marine organisms by exploiting their natural environment. Researchers Tom Schoenbaum and Cathy Martin, in findings presented to the Marine Science Council and the World Mari- culture Society, have concluded that "In order to make mariculture a viable industry, North Carolina laws that ad- versely impact it will have to be revised to avoid limiting the indus- try's commercial ; Specifically, the researchers recom- mend that the Coastal Resources Com- mission be given authority to make. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration
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