. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Learning to make eel pot at advisory trkshop Si mm. Guy Hamilton is one of those Americans who earns his living knocking dents out of bashed- in cars. The red paint spattered across the belly of his gray workshirt and a tag on his windbreaker proclaiming that he's an employee at "Dealers Auto Service" testify to that. It's not that the work or the money at his dad's body and fender shop in New Bern is bad. But like 1235 Burlington Laboratories NCSU, Raleigh, N. C. 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2454 Part-t
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Learning to make eel pot at advisory trkshop Si mm. Guy Hamilton is one of those Americans who earns his living knocking dents out of bashed- in cars. The red paint spattered across the belly of his gray workshirt and a tag on his windbreaker proclaiming that he's an employee at "Dealers Auto Service" testify to that. It's not that the work or the money at his dad's body and fender shop in New Bern is bad. But like 1235 Burlington Laboratories NCSU, Raleigh, N. C. 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2454 Part-time work that is paying off alot of folks trying to hold the reins on today's galloping prices, Hamilton wanted to pick up some extra cash in his spare time. Last spring, he hit on an idea that, put into action, has beefed up his bank account—with a small investment in time and money. That idea: fishing for eels. Hamilton came across the idea from contacts with University of North Carolina Sea Grant ad- visory agents. With their help, he built his first eel traps and learned about good baits and fishing lo- cations. He opened his business a year ago with eight traps. This spring Hamilton has more than 30 in the rivers new New Bern. For work that rarely takes more than three hours a day, eel fishing can be well worth the time, Hamilton found. During one week in the height of the season last fall, 12 of Hamilton's traps caught 600 pounds of eels. At 50 cents per pound, Hamil- ton could see his part-time work beginning to pay off. Most of the eels that Hamilton and other Tarheel eel fishermen land wind up in Europe. Dealers travel the coastal area collecting and transferring eels from holding tanks to live-haul tank trucks. The trucks take the eels to processing plants where they are frozen alive, a requirement for selling them abroad. Hamilton is just one of hundreds of North Caro- linians who have taken up eel fishing under the direction of UNC Sea Grant advisory agents. Five
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