. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. h/s Made Life Easier For Fishermen I'} something new . . just the minimum" to remain â competitive. The hydraulics, which can double a â catch, cost anywhere from $250 to $4,000 and up. I 1 Enough floating and weighted sinking lines to rig â just one net can cost over $70. I "Progress" has made fishermen more vulnerable I to outside forces than in Austin's day, too. Fuel â costs have risen. Nets, a petroleum product, have Idoubled in price. Insurance keeps going up. New â Social Security reg
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. h/s Made Life Easier For Fishermen I'} something new . . just the minimum" to remain â competitive. The hydraulics, which can double a â catch, cost anywhere from $250 to $4,000 and up. I 1 Enough floating and weighted sinking lines to rig â just one net can cost over $70. I "Progress" has made fishermen more vulnerable I to outside forces than in Austin's day, too. Fuel â costs have risen. Nets, a petroleum product, have Idoubled in price. Insurance keeps going up. New â Social Security regulations are tangling book- Ikeeping. And new Internal Revenue Service re- Iquirements will make it difficult for fishermen to â use the old method of sharing equipment and catches by "fishing on ; it These days, Foster says, it's hard for a new- Icomer to get started. Financing is hard to get, land with interest rates running around 10 per- â cent, "It's as hard to pay them (loans) back as it lis to get ; As often happens, Foster did it by I first working on someone else's boat and then buy- ling a used boat. Crowded Waters I Observers and fishermen agree, however, that Irecently younger menâlike Bill Fosterâhave be- Igun to take to the nets. And while the small opera- Itions like Foster's open boat are still popular and Iprofitable, especially in the sounds, government ⢠officials note a trend toward more of the bigger â trawlers as well. The large trawlers, about 55 feet Band up. usually carry a larger crew and move more Bfreely over greater distances, often farther out at â sea. The trawlers are better able to move up and â down the coast as seasons change. H The largest group vying for the increasingly ^crowded fishing spaceâover 18,000 vessels were â¢registered in North Carolina last yearâis made up â of sports fishermen. North Carolina has a long r tradition of sports fishing and although those â catches are not monito
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