. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. The minimum set- backs for coastal con- struction are the subject of another Sea Grant mini-grant. The re- searchers are Alan Stutts and Chrystos Siderlis from North Carolina State Univer- sity's Department of Recreation and Resources Administration. Enforced since 1979, the minimum construction setback requirement is calculated on a 30-year erosion rate which results in a setback as short as 60 feet or as long as 400 feet. (The average annual erosion rate is two feet.) As a general rule, the further a str
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. The minimum set- backs for coastal con- struction are the subject of another Sea Grant mini-grant. The re- searchers are Alan Stutts and Chrystos Siderlis from North Carolina State Univer- sity's Department of Recreation and Resources Administration. Enforced since 1979, the minimum construction setback requirement is calculated on a 30-year erosion rate which results in a setback as short as 60 feet or as long as 400 feet. (The average annual erosion rate is two feet.) As a general rule, the further a structure is set back from the ocean, the greater its resistance to hurricanes and erosion. However, many builders and property owners are using the minimum standard as a maximum, building right at the line. Working with Spencer Rogers, Sea Grant's coastal engineer, Stutts and Siderelis will be studying a sample area of the coast, measuring setbacks. This data will be combined with interviews with property owners and state and local officials. Their objective is to determine if the setback requirements have adverse effects, encouraging development further seaward and in- creasing the potential for loss of property. »A fclc? If Several Sea Grant people attended confer- ences in February to pre- sent their work. Ron Hodson, Sea Grant's associate director and project director of the NCSU Aquaculture Demonstration Project, and Randy Rouse, a techni- cian at the project, traveled to the World Mariculture Society's meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. Technical sessions at the international meeting covered new developments in the culture of fish, shrimp, lobsters, crawfish and molluscs. John Foster, also of the Aquaculture Demonstra- tion Project and Bill Rickards, direc- tor of Virginia Sea Grant, also pre- sented a paper and poster on teaching eels to eat pelleted feeds. (Rickards was UNC Sea Grant's associate direc- tor before he moved to Virginia last spring.) John Sanders, Sea G
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