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De spite the many tools that have been developed to in crease food supplies, millions of the world’s most potenti ally productive acres are be ing allowed to lie fallow be cause efforts to draw obvious parallels between land hus bandry and water husbandry have been piece-meal and be cause incentives have been lacking that would exploit this concept to help close the protein gap. , We could say that the com- ; mercial fishing is still in a ■ hunting and gathering stage t and let it go at that. This is as if the effort to develop , aquaculture had to start , from scientific scratch. If , this was the case, the inputs | of manpower, money, and the ] resources required would in- ( deed be ovei whelming. But, , as some have pointed out | much of the groundwork has \ been laid by man’s age old s experience with agriculture, j Innovation the secret of America’s technological great ness and the source of her agricultural leadership are all that is needed. A great deal, for instance, is known about the genetics of beef cattle, wheat and corn but very little about the genetics of fish and virtually nothing about the genetics of molluscs, crustaceans and marine algae. Yet, even one such study could pay enorm ous dividends. Also, one might consider similarities with feed re search for farm animals which is a great deal more I . advanced than for the aquatic i species. Although soil sci ’ ences is far advanced, there : has been almost no investi gation of the interactions be , tween the bottoms of oceans, ponds, rivers and lakes and the waters that overlie them. Nor has it been widely rec ognized that just as soils can be coaxed toward higher yields by fertilizer, tilling and pesticides so comparable practices can snake waters more productive. Aquaculture resembles ag riculture rather than fish eries in that it does not rely on a common property re source but presumes owner ship or at least rights to such basis of production as ponds or portions of, or sites in, bays or other large bodies of water. Products of aquacul ture must compete success fully with those of fisheries and of animal husbandry; in western food economy, aqua- 1 culture products such as trout, oysters and shrimp bring good returns because they fall in the luxury class; whereas in developing coun tries various kinds of raised fish command a high price, | since animal protein, includ ing that derived from marine Post Office Gets Tough On All Type Chain Letters A startling 476 per cent up-' surge in unlawful chain letter activity has prompted Post master General Win ton M. Blount to order a nationwide crackdown on those who con duct the scheme through the mails. Chain letters are regarded as nonmailable under the postal lottery and fraud laws. catches <s generally scarce. Although subsidized small home or village ponds may be justified in certain undevel oped areas to help alleviate malnutrition. Aquaculture, wherever it is practiced, should be examined primar ily as a commercial enter prise that must compete with other protein supplies to be successful. Among the more important groups of marine organisms lending themselves to inten sive cultivation are some of the following: 1. The molluscs. In this group we include the oyster, clam, the mussel and the scallop. 2. The second group that has lent themselves to scien tific development in intensive cultivation would be the crustaceans of which shrimp would be ,a good example. Shrimp culture has been studied intensively in Japan and in the U. 6. sufficiently to justify a major effort. Shrimp mariculture is now being undertaken in Florida and in other states with a coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. 3. The last group would They are considered to be fraudulent because of the un likelihood the chain will re main unbroken and the par ticipant will reap anything - from his participation. Chief Postal Inspector William J. Cotter revealed that the num ber of such schemes under : investigation by his depart ment leaped from 97 in Aug ust 1969 to 559 by the end of January 1970. Cotter said the nationwide increase in chain letter ac tivity primarily involves : cash but, from time to time, it will also use items such as i U. S. Savings Bonds and Pos tal Money Orders. “When and if anyone actu ally profits from chain let ters, he said, “it is only those who are in on the ground floor. Later participants rare ly, if ever, recoup their in vestments. Endless chains, as they are sometimes known, are not really endless. They, progress with such rapidity that the number of prospects is soon exhausted and those investors who relied on the chain find themselves to be losers. As an example, a letter re quiring a purchaser to seel or mail six copies to others with each of these selling six more, and so on, would the' ■ retically reach the entire it erate population of the • irth if it were followed tv ough only to the elevyith ’ .vel.” In many cases; th' promot er sets himself up o take all the profit. “Fr example,” Cotter said, “one of the most vicious chains recently un covered was one using the be reaved families of soldiers killed in Vietnam as victims. In this scheme the promoter posed as a grieving father himself and attempted to lure 100 families into a chain let ter swindle where all pro | ceeds were to be sent back to him under five aliases at dif ferent addresses. An addi tional 1,000 families were slated to be targets when the promoter was arrested and subsequently sentenced to three years in prison. The letters he actually mailed could have netted him more than $30,000 if he had been allowed to continue but prompt action by postal in spectors prevented any public lOSS." The department’s office of the general counsel stressed that “bven though some of the chain letters are transfer red hand-to-hand and state ‘Do Not Mail,’ the schemes still violate the postal laws since the proceeds realized from such activities usually are mailed.” On the other hand, so called chain letters which call for nothing more than recipes, picture post cards and the like, are ordinarily considered to be mailable since the items sent do not constitute a thing of value within the meaning of the ap plicable law. However, pos tal cards involving “good ,luck” chain prayers contain ing a threat of bad luck to those breaking the chain are illegal under a law that pro hibits the placement of threatening matter on the ( outside of mail. I Cotter cautioned the pub lic especially to be alert for numerous chain letters cur rently being distributed which claim to have been re viewed by some legal author ity and officially approved , for mailing. be the finfish and -these may be cultured in marine or brackish waters of the world dating back to ancient times. In some parts of the world finfish are reared by methods generally similar to those de scribed for shrimp fanning or “ranching” as in the (Philip pines. In Japan an eel has been caught in entrance to rivers and raised to market size in ponds in one year on a diet of low value fish. Also, many other species of marine organisms can lend them selves to aquaculture tech niques. With two million acres of inside waters along the North Carolina coast and with over 300 miles of ocean we should be able to bend our talents to developing an aquaculture or mariculture program in North Carolina to the benefit of the entire fisheries in dustries. Although we have used the teims aquaculture and mari culture somewhat interchange ably perhaps for the record we should clarify and make some distinctions. The term aquaculture has been used in two ways; the cultivation of any living organism, plant or animal, in fresh or salt water; or cultivation of only fresh water organisms. The term mariculture is used only to describe the cultivation of plants or animals in sea wa ter, brackish or salt (ma rine). Sincerely, DOC. SIO.OO PRIZES ——- i ti>», w • ! . 5 Each Day - MONDAY THRU SATURDAY - Drawing Each Day A 6 P.M. Come Join The Fun Here’s AH Yon Have To D 0... Register On Everv Visit -NO OBLIGATION \jurjvery visit T 0 MAKE PURCHASE Drawings WiH Be Held At 6 P. M. Daily. 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