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Page 8-A Aquaculture Production Expected To Double by Johnny Foster Will aquaculture become a significant contributor of food, medicine or fuel in the not-too-distant future? Will major economic activity be generated by a broad new industry? What are the constraints to development, and what is the realistic potential for aquaculture in the United States...and the world? These questions are very important to potential in vestors, entrepreneurs, farmers and bureaucrats. In fact, anyone interested in the subject of commercial aquaculture must develop opinions about its future. One interesting report has been published by a business-research company in New York. Status of Aquaculture in the United States is published by Find- SVP and costs $295.00.1 read a summary of the report in Aquaculture Digest magazine. Here are some conclusions in the report: 1. Two major problems facing the aquaculture industry are the lack of investment capital and the need for mpre research. 2. U.S. aquaculture sales now $148.5 million are ex pected to grow to $412.5 million by 1985 if the private sector properly develops markets. 3. Within the next 20 years aquaculture may become the most productive protein delivery system in the U.S. 4. Low-cost, warm-water species, such as tilapia and buffalofish, yielding the most protein for the least cost, are predicted to become major sources of food. But markets need to be developed. 5. Artificial systems using recirculated water have tremendous potential if SUPER CONCENTRATED : --r—H DEODORIZER Mrr^ilf HP is so effective that «Ujp!UlW m 2 DROPS DEODORIZE L - J * SKUNK! asfgffl i * Just think of the odor to sixttan problems it could solve i| A .. for y'u bathroom, pets, cooking, mildew, aerosol j] mSSSm* JJ gerbe e. diapers (AAA cans r °lomE E " 5 3®" rosTPAI ° To order send < heck or money order to SCHMID PRODUCTS CO., Div. of SCHMID LABO. lATORIES. INC., Box A. Route 46 West, Little Fells. NJ 07424. 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Although broadly stated, I believe these conclusions are reasonable. The aquaculture industry will grow. People are beginning to eat more fish and they are demanding a product more consistent in quality. Commercial fish stocks are being fully exploited. Some stocks are already declining. The cost of fish will increase. More food and sport fishes will come from farms. Dr. Harry Dupree from the Fish Farming Ex perimental Station in Stuttgart, Arkansas feels aquaculture has a bright future and will expand significantly over the next 20 years. He says recreational fishing and hobby fish farming will expand as people have more leisure time. Most ex pansion will be in warm water areas. Selective breeding of catfish and trout will be emphasized to produce faster-growing fish. The various species of Chinese carp will be cultured more. Dupree thinks culture facilities, feed mills, processing plants and marketing outlets will have common or cooperative ownership. Marketing activities will accelerate. New fisheries products will be developed for the working couple. Fish products will be developed for export markets. Fish farming will be in tegrated with agriculture. Irrigation water will be used for fish production before being used on crops. Fish and crop rotation will become a standard farming practice. OK. Aquaculture will grow, but how fast? The state of the economy offers the major constraint, and who can predict what it will,, do? Suitable water for aquaculture is declining. Diseases and product quality must be controlled. Improvements in genetics and water quality management are necessary. But most importantly, people must be stimulated to eat more fisheries products. Nevertheless, I predict aquaculture production will double by late 1987 in North Carolina. More catfish and trout will be produced. A new state bottom-leasing grogram on the cost will increase production of clams and oysters. Marine fish and scallops may be cultured over leased bottoms towards the end of this five years. Greenhouses will be used to integrate fish and plant production. Even a few prawns (freshwater shrimp) weighing one quarter pound each may be produced in the greenhouses. Hobbyists will use cages to grow catfish and tilapia in the summer and rainbow trout in the winter. Homeowners will build water gardens to enhance their landscape. Aquaculture will produce fingerling sportfish for stocking private ponds and fee fishing lakes. The state may even buy fish and shellfish for stocking rivers and sounds. Research will identify suitable new species and locations. After 1987 I think aquaculture production will at least double again in the following five years. Youth Day Youth Day will be ob served at the Hawkins Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church at 1:30 P.M. on July 4. Rev. William Hines of Gatesville, N.C. will be the speaker for this occasion. There will be special music furnished by the Young Believers of Eden ton. The public is invited to attend. THE CHOWAN HERALD —The Carolina Review -MAR E BASIC QUESTION...With this week’s primary election and ** surrpunding hoopla, the final adjourment of the Noffti Carolina General Assembly last Wednesday seems a longtime ago. Then again, the legislators have been meeting with such regularity that maybe the people in Raleigh have become somewhat bored by it all and pay no attention. As previously reported, the legislators came back to Raleigh for an extra week because of two hang - ups in education. Those problems were settled rather quickly when teachers were awarded an extra two “snow” days of leave time and when efforts to remove the budget office from the Department of Public Education were short - circuited. Senators calling for re - location of the budget office (into the governor’s office) were appeased by plans to study the much - maligned effectiveness of the office now in the Department of Public Education. Then another problem that had been simmering for several days erupted bet ween conservative legislative leaders who usually share the same viewpoint. The argument was over a new health insurance plan for state employees and teachers. The new plan, already approved, calls for the state to build up its own investment reserve for insurance purposes rather than buying group in surance as a company would for its individual employees. Because of its vast employee resource and payment structure, the state figures to save money by insuring itself and paying only to have the system administered. So far, so good. But the state employees were previously insured by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina - in Durham. Sen. Kenneth Royall represents' Durham ’aria ESe* is one of the most powerful and influential members of the legislature. One can easily understand why Sen. Royall would want at least to have Blue Cross and Blue Shield awarded the contract for administering the new insurance plan. Sen. Harold Hardison, chairman of the Senat° Appropriations Committee and a close Senate ally of Sen. Royall’s, agreed. A third powerful legislative leader from the House side, Rep. Billy Watkins, disagreed. A Texas outfit, Electronic Data Systems, Inc. of Dallas, had submitted a bid $6.3 million less than the Blue Cross bid. Watkins wanted the contract to go to the Dallas - based company. The controversy, touched off by the insurance plan, went much further. The more basic question was who should award state contracts, the ad ministrative branch or the legislative branch? Historically, contract awards have been decided through the administrative branch because it was thought they could better divorce themselves from a limited constituency and partisan politics and liik at the whole picture. That idea won out when compromise wording was worked out, directing the state budget officer (in the administrative branch) to award the contract to the ItWEBrI THtATRE Epf.WTON, N.C 1 BRUCE IN La. E | ! "GAME OF DEATH" j | "RETURN OF DRAGON" ! ■iiiiiininiiiiaiiiiiimiiTig! Rib Hl-Mllor Light Truck Tiro • Long, low-cost mileage. 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Lord’s Supper To Be Observed The Sacrament of Holy Communion will be celebrated at the Edenton United Methodist Church during the morning worship service at 11 A.M., July 4th. The chancel choir will sing two anthems: “The Lord’s My Shepherd” and “Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory.” The special committee on Evangelism (CORE) and the leaders of the Neigh borhood Groups for Evangelism will meet at the church on July 7. 7:30 P.M. Mrs. C. B. (Thelma) Smith, the Chairperson of the Work ■ Area, on Evangelism, will preside over this meeting. On April 12, 1776, North Carolina became the first colony to instruct its deleqates to vote for independence in the Continental Congress. LATE SHOW FRI & SAT AT 11:30 P.M. Eastern Carolina Health Systems The monthly meeting of the Eastern Carolina Health Systems Agency (ECHSA) will be held July 14,1982 , at 7:30 P.M. at the Ramada Inn, 264 By- Pass, Green ville, N.C. The agenda will include but not be limited to the foIllowing:l) Report of the Executive Director; and 2) Project Review Report and 3) Substantive Review Report: 1) Upjohn Health care Services - establish ment of Home Health Agency in Nash County and 2) East Carolina University gjjßg PHONE 452-2312 OR ATLDR 793-21*5 ANYTIME theatre eTto ifcl FOR c r. L ! TE MOV,E I j f MOVIE DISCOUNT BOOKS NOW ON SALE _J I jj |End* Thursday "Sambi" At 7* 9. Thurt. It Senior Citizens Night) 1 | STARTS FRIDAY? j Ij TH ; JbflHHUakiMMaliaJlfcAlHillHJ ! | FRIDAY NIGHT IS LADIES NIGHT AOM. $1.50 k , « TUESDAY NIGHT IS BARGAIN NIGHT ADM. *1.50 J I j COMING SOON "ROCKY HI" * "STAR TREK II" i | Thursday, July 1. 1982 School of Medicine - con struction and operation of a regional radiation oncology colter. For information on project reviews, contact: Director of Project Review, < Eastern Carolina Health Systems Agency, 301 S. Evans St., Minges Building, Suite 405, Greenville, N.C. 27834, 919-758-1372. The Eastern Carolina Health Systems agency is a private, non - profit cor poration funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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