. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Bahen's Gulf Stream Information Ser- vice, write him at the Marine Resources Center/Ft. Fisher, General Delivery, Kure Beach, 28449. Or call 919/458-5498. From Calabash to Currituck, the UNC Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service has news for you—the commercial fisherman, the angler, the aquaculturist, the seafood dealer, the property owner. Marine advisory agents Jim Bahen in Wilmington, Bob Hines in Atlantic Beach, Wayne Wescott in Manteo and Randy Rouse in Aurora have joined with specialist Rich Novak t


. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Bahen's Gulf Stream Information Ser- vice, write him at the Marine Resources Center/Ft. Fisher, General Delivery, Kure Beach, 28449. Or call 919/458-5498. From Calabash to Currituck, the UNC Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service has news for you—the commercial fisherman, the angler, the aquaculturist, the seafood dealer, the property owner. Marine advisory agents Jim Bahen in Wilmington, Bob Hines in Atlantic Beach, Wayne Wescott in Manteo and Randy Rouse in Aurora have joined with specialist Rich Novak to bring the public an informal monthly news- letter about the latest in commercial and recreational fishing gear, fisheries regulations, fishing tournaments, aquaculture, marketing news, publica- tions and more. The team is calling its newsletter The Marine Advisory News, and it's free for the asking. The team newslet- ter takes the place of separate newslet- ters, such as Light Line, published by individual agents. To receive a copy, write The Marine Advisory News, Box 8605, North Carolina State Uni- versity, Raleigh, 27695-8605. What yields more crabs in a single catch than eight to 10 crab pots? The answer: a peeler pound. Randy Rouse, the marine ad- visory agent at the Aquaculture Research Center in Aurora, is experimenting with a peeler pound to catch hard crabs and peelers. So far, the results have been good. In one night he caught 50 legal-size crabs, 15 peelers, three flounders and four large eels. Used frequently in Virginia, peeler pounds are set in shallow water and ex- tend from the shore to a trap at the. end. The peeler pounds have three main parts—the lead, the heart and the trap. Leads are usually constructed of crab pot wire strung along the bot- tom, but some are made from net web- bing. Hearts are generally constructed with wire and may or may not have tops and bottoms. The heart herds the crabs to the trap, which is also con- structed of wire and at


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