. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. the hybrid. â Hodson would like to reduce the time it takes to produce a marketable fish. Now it takes about two years to get a 1 1/2-pound fish. â In a joint project with Maryland Sea Grant, Hodson will try to shorten that to one season by treating fish with a growth hor- mone. Fish already have growth hormones in their bodies. But increasing the amount may spur the fish to grow faster. â Hod- son will determine how much hormone to apply and when in the fish's life cycle to apply it. â Like all creatures,
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. the hybrid. â Hodson would like to reduce the time it takes to produce a marketable fish. Now it takes about two years to get a 1 1/2-pound fish. â In a joint project with Maryland Sea Grant, Hodson will try to shorten that to one season by treating fish with a growth hor- mone. Fish already have growth hormones in their bodies. But increasing the amount may spur the fish to grow faster. â Hod- son will determine how much hormone to apply and when in the fish's life cycle to apply it. â Like all creatures, fish need the right amounts of proteins and vitamins. Commercial feeds may not provide all of that. â In her ECU laboratory, Margie Gallagher learned that a healthy harvest of fish depends on the quality of the fish's diet as larvae. So she'll focus her work on the fish's first meals. â If Lee Brothers is as successful in his venture as Hodson believes, he'll sell his first crop of fish next year. But the market for hybrids is a new one, and it may offer some surprises. â NCSU economist Jim Easley would like to eliminate some of the uncertainty that goes along with a new industry. â He'll help fish farmers decide how much they should invest in their venture, what the costs will be, and when will be the best time to put their product on the market. Pholo by Nancy Davis. Ron Hodson prepares hybrid striped bass eggs for incubation seafood Two ECU anthropologists have an unusual assignment ahead of them. For the next two years, they will exam- ine the minds of America's seafood consumers. â David Griffith and Jeff Johnson want to find out what folks know about seafood, what motivates them to buy it, and how they perceive seafoods versus other meats. â For answers, Griffith and Johnson will survey more than 1,000 people from Midwestern and South Atlantic states. â On the top of their list of questions is whether consumers have tried any of the surimi-based products on th
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