. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Dockside, the new catch is squid "Moon" Tillett and his son, Billy Carl Tillett, two Wanchese fishermen, know how to catch all the squid they want. But the problem comes in finding a market for the eight-armed mollusks. In the summer, the Tilletts net what they commonly call "summer squid" or ///ex. In the winter, it's "winter squid" or Loligo. Last summer was the first time the Tilletts had fished specifically for squid. This winter they're catching the cephalopods as a
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Dockside, the new catch is squid "Moon" Tillett and his son, Billy Carl Tillett, two Wanchese fishermen, know how to catch all the squid they want. But the problem comes in finding a market for the eight-armed mollusks. In the summer, the Tilletts net what they commonly call "summer squid" or ///ex. In the winter, it's "winter squid" or Loligo. Last summer was the first time the Tilletts had fished specifically for squid. This winter they're catching the cephalopods as a bycatch. Billy Carl Tillett captains the boat, the Linda Gayle, while his father mans the telephones, negotiating the prices their catch will bring. The Tilletts get an average of 20 cents a pound for summer squid and 35 cents a pound for winter squid. "They tell us they're using the summer squid for bait," says Moon Tillett. "But I know those squid have some food ; Last summer, Billy Carl Tillett netted anywhere from 7,000 to 60,000 pounds of squid in a two-day trip. His father says their records show that between July and October they caught over one million pounds of squid. "We had the best fishing summer ever," says Billy Carl Tillett. "It was profitable and showed us something else we could do. It was better than trying to shrimp around here, where you make just enough to keep your head above ; In 1981, North Carolina fishermen landed 278,290 pounds of squid in this state with a dockside value of $91,652. In 1982, 135,935 pounds of squid were landed for a dockside total of $43,884. Figures for the 1983 catch were not available from the Division of Marine Fisheries, but Moon Tillett estimates that Wanchese fishermen netted between four million and five million pounds of the mollusks last year. In a management plan approved in December 1983, the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council in cooperation with the National M
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