. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. "The Back Page" is an update on Sea Grant activities—on research, marine education and advisory services. It's also a good place to find out about meetings, workshops and new publications. For more information on any of the projects described, contact the Sea Grant offices in Raleigh (919/737-2454). For copies of pub- lications, write UNC Sea Grant, Box 8605, NCSU, Raleigh, 27695-8605. Some professional foot- ball players love to play on it; others despise it. But no matter how players in th
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. "The Back Page" is an update on Sea Grant activities—on research, marine education and advisory services. It's also a good place to find out about meetings, workshops and new publications. For more information on any of the projects described, contact the Sea Grant offices in Raleigh (919/737-2454). For copies of pub- lications, write UNC Sea Grant, Box 8605, NCSU, Raleigh, 27695-8605. Some professional foot- ball players love to play on it; others despise it. But no matter how players in the National Football League view AstroTurf, bay scallops in North Carolina find it a great place to settle. That's one of the findings of a Sea Grant research team assembled to study bay scallop aquaculture and natural populations. To collect spat for laboratory experi- ments and aquaculture grow-out, scientists Pete Peterson of the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Science and Will Ambrose of East Carolina University tested several collection materials. They found that the young scallops settled most abundantly on suspended pieces of AstroTurf. Collection methods are important be- cause resource managers could use them to increase natural populations and shell- fish aquaculturalists could use them as a source of stock. The North Carolina General Assembly funded the study because the 1987 red tide devastated bay scallop populations, killing 98 percent of the young scallops. The study is designed to determine how natural populations can be increased and whether bay scallops are good candidates for aquaculture. In laboratory experiments, Peterson was able to spawn bay scallops and raise them to adulthood. But Peterson says the scal- lops are more finicky than their cousins, the hard clams. Sea Grant agent Skip Kemp agrees. He worked with a Pender County clam cultur- ist to raise a small crop of scallops. "Scallops are much more delicate," Kemp says. &quo
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