. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. COASTAL TIDINGS Commercial Harvests Down Last Year Declining harvests of crabs and shrimp, coupled with poor market conditions after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, greatly affected the catch and value for commercial fisheries in 2001, according to the Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF). In 2001, commercial fishers landed million pounds offish and shellfish at North Carolina docks, with the catch valued at $88 million. Total landings dropped million pounds from 2000 and million from th
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. COASTAL TIDINGS Commercial Harvests Down Last Year Declining harvests of crabs and shrimp, coupled with poor market conditions after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, greatly affected the catch and value for commercial fisheries in 2001, according to the Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF). In 2001, commercial fishers landed million pounds offish and shellfish at North Carolina docks, with the catch valued at $88 million. Total landings dropped million pounds from 2000 and million from the previous five-year average of million pounds. This makes the 2001 harvest the second-lowest catch since 1973, when million pounds of seafood were landed at North Carolina ports, according to DMF. The reported dollar values of the top species were: blue crabs, $25 million; shrimp, $ million; southern flounder, $ million; hard clams, $5 million; and Atlantic menhaden, $ million. There was some good news on the commercial seafood front. Peeler and soft crab landings increased by 320,000 and 172,000 pounds respectively. Croaker landings also increased to 12 million pounds, a 2 million-pound gain over the 10 million- pound average for the previous five years. Recreational anglers enjoyed their largest catch in the past 13 years, with big gains in dolphin, spot and bluefish landings. About million pounds of fish were caught by recreational anglers in 2001, a million-pound increase over the million pounds landed in 2000, according to DMF. Fishery Resource Grants Awarded Satellites far above the earth may help sea turtles and flounder gill-netters coexist in the Pamlico Sound, thanks to a new research project funded by the North Carolina Fishery Resource Grant Program (FRG). Commercial fisher Bill Foster of Hatteras is teaming with Andrew Read of the Duke University Marine Lab to tag Kemp's Ridley, green and loggerhead turtles with transmit-
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