. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Courtesy of the Division of Marine Fisheries. a disastrous shrimp season. Clinton Willis, chairman of the Carteret County Watermen's Association, says the declines in recent years have been drastic. He predicts that fishermen have one more year of profitable kicking harvest. His group is asking for new management schemes and more harvestable area. Although DMF would like to open more area for mechanical harvest, "we've given them every- thing we can without getting into the rake and tong areas,&q
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Courtesy of the Division of Marine Fisheries. a disastrous shrimp season. Clinton Willis, chairman of the Carteret County Watermen's Association, says the declines in recent years have been drastic. He predicts that fishermen have one more year of profitable kicking harvest. His group is asking for new management schemes and more harvestable area. Although DMF would like to open more area for mechanical harvest, "we've given them every- thing we can without getting into the rake and tong areas," Munden says. "We're caught in the middle. The hand rakers are not going to agree to give up any of their area for mechanical harvest, and the mechanical harvesters aren't going to be happy until we open these ; This year to lengthen the avail- ability of mechanically harvested clams throughout the season, the fisheries commission gave DMF Director Robert Mahood the au- thority to set bag limits by procla- mation. Using his authority, he can raise and lower bag limits as the need arises. Willis says his group would like for DMF to begin a rotation system where areas periodically would be opened and closed to kicking. This would allow stocks in closed areas to replenish themselves. Munden says the division has talked to fishermen about a rota- tion system, but until now the fish- ermen have not been in favor of the idea. DMF also presented the rota- tion system to the marine fisheries commissioners. The rotation system proposed by DMF would subdivide the area already opened to mechanical har- vest. Munden says the commission wants more information on such a system, and Sea Grant researcher Charles "Pete" Peterson is conduct- ing studies now that may help base the rotation system on scientific facts—recruitment, growth and mortahty rates for various habitats. Willis also would like DMF to move, or pay fishermen to move, clams from closed polluted a
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