. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. North Carolina State Library Raleigh N. C. Doc. University of North Carolina Sea Grant Program NEWSLETTER May, 1974 1235 Burlington Laboratories NCSU, Raleigh, 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2U5U Sea Grant serves you: New morsels for your seafood platter Tuna seems to show up everywhere. The hungri- est, dirtiest construction worker gobbles down a couple of tuna sandwiches for lunch. And tuna salad is an old standby at ladies' dainty teas. But watch out, tuna. It's possible that before long, wives will pack amb


. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. North Carolina State Library Raleigh N. C. Doc. University of North Carolina Sea Grant Program NEWSLETTER May, 1974 1235 Burlington Laboratories NCSU, Raleigh, 27607 Tel: (919) 737-2U5U Sea Grant serves you: New morsels for your seafood platter Tuna seems to show up everywhere. The hungri- est, dirtiest construction worker gobbles down a couple of tuna sandwiches for lunch. And tuna salad is an old standby at ladies' dainty teas. But watch out, tuna. It's possible that before long, wives will pack amberjack sandwiches for hubby's lunch and ladies will top off the lettuce with something called white grunt salad. Restau- rants may feature dishes like triggerfish parmesan and barracuda casserole. Amberjack, white grunt and barracuda—all caught by fishermen off North Carolina's coast for years. "Trash fish" they called them—then hurled a curse and dumped them back. But with the world's stomach growling for pro- tein and with an eye toward spurring the economy of deprived coastal areas, folks began wondering about turning "trash" fish into useful foods. They also put their minds to improving the harvesting, handling and processing of seafoods people have eaten for centuries. But making more of a catch meant setting up lines of communication between the men who catch and process seafoods and engineers and scientists who test and design new methods. That's where Sea Grant stepped in. Sea Grant is a University of North Carolina program that gets money from the U. S. Department of Com-. merce's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- ministration (NOAA) and the N. C. Department of Administration. Part of Sea Grant funds support research aimed at developing coastal and marine resources in an environmentally sound fashion. But Sea Grant is equally anxious to get research results to people who can profit from them. That includes everyone from the guy setting the ne


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