. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Mike Street marketable size. (Primary nursery areas are never opened to shrimping.) Proclamations are posted by DMF en- forcement officers and can take effect as soon as 48 hours later. Usually, Street says, the division tries to give fishermen more notice. Under North Carolina's manage- ment system, shrimpers can fish offshore and inside waters—bays and sounds—year round. These are areas Marine Fisheries call "migration routes" or paths by which shrimp exit the nursery areas for their offshore s
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Mike Street marketable size. (Primary nursery areas are never opened to shrimping.) Proclamations are posted by DMF en- forcement officers and can take effect as soon as 48 hours later. Usually, Street says, the division tries to give fishermen more notice. Under North Carolina's manage- ment system, shrimpers can fish offshore and inside waters—bays and sounds—year round. These are areas Marine Fisheries call "migration routes" or paths by which shrimp exit the nursery areas for their offshore spawning grounds. Fishermen fish these migration routes as the shrimp begin trickling out of the shallow nur- sery areas. Street admits that under this system daily catches may be lower, but he says, the overall catch for everyone will be greater. He points to last year's record catch (the largest in over 25 years) as evidence the plan works. "The same drought we had last year, that helped us, resulted in good crops in South Carolina and Georgia," Street says. "But their management is quite different from ours. Their manage- ment is for the big boats. Very few of their inside waters are open for shrimp- ing. So their boats stayed out in the ocean waiting for the shrimp to come out. Waiting and waiting and waiting. It stayed dry and they didn't come out until late in the year and then all at once. They couldn't get them all. Their landings were low. I think our ap- proach to management was justified by conditions last ; Besides preventing the problems Street says plagued Georgia and South Carolina, the present management system also put an end to the traditional "opening day" for shrimp- ing. Prior to the 1970s, shrimp season opened every year around July 1. Fishermen and fisheries personnel alike say every shrimper in North Carolina had his boat in the water that first day. "You could see as many as 500 boats in New River on opening da
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