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February 6, 2003
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Volume LIV, Number 18
Serving UNC Wilmington since
Bush addresses
budget, terror
Taya Owens
BASEBALL TEAM
EYES CAA TITLE,
NCAA TOURNEY
Brad Hutchens
Senior Staff Writer
The UNC Wilmington baseball
program is gearing up for the
2003 season with high hopes and
untied goals. Coming off a 36-21
record and a second place finish in
the Colonial Athletic Association
in 2002, the Seahawks now focus
on improving on those marks and
becoming a national contender.
The Seahawks return to action
this year hoping to maintain their
dominance in the field which led
to a second place finish in fielding
percentage last season.
A key returnee to the Seahawks
roster is senior all-conference out-
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Staff Writer
President Bush’s second State
of the Union address to Congress
included his plans for and views
on terrorism. Medicare, tax reduc
tions and energy independence.
On Tuesday, Jan. 28, the first
item on Bush’s agenda was the
need for national economic stimu
lus and his proposal for income
tax reductions. According to
Bush’s figures, the average family
of four with an income of $40,000
would keep about $1,000 this tax
season.
Bush also called for “spending
discipline” in Washington to help
the country out of its deficit and
regain a budget surplus.
In addi
tion to
emphasizing
a weak econ
omy, Bush
targeted
health care
reform, ener
gy independ
ence and
introduced a
$450 million
mentor pro
gram that
would help
“junior-high
students and
children of
prisoners.”
Bush addresses important
issues concerning the U.S.
Bush encouraged Congress to
act now on these problems and to
pass his programs for social
reform instead of leaving them
“for Americans in three, or five,
or seven years.”
While he called the terrorists’
threats from A1 Qae# “no longer
a problem in the United States,”
Bush encouraged Congress to
develop a Terrorist Threat
Integration Center, combining
the efforts of the FBI, CIA,
Homeland Security Agency and
Department of Defense.
Bush built the administra
tion’s case against the Hussein
regime in Baghdad. While pre
senting facts concerning the
weapons that Hussein is known
to have and has given no evi
dence of
destroying, he
noted, “This
nation fights
reluctantly
because we
know the cost
and we dread
the days of
mourning that
always come.”
Bush sent
Congress a
$2.23 trillion
fiscal 2004
budget Monday
which forecasts
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UNCW Aquaculture, with the help of a federal grant,
replenishes the flounder and sea bass populations.
UNCW spawns
fish population
Sarah Broders
News Editor
A UNCW professor has been
working on hatchery technologies
that may keep flounder on
America’s dinner menu.
The Aquaculture program, in
collaboration with North Carolina
State University, has developed a
hatchery program for southern
flounder -- an economically
important fish that has been
declining in numbers for two
decades.
“Southern flounder is now the
most important flatfish harvested
in North Carolina,” said Wade
Watanabe, the primary researcher
of the fish farming research pro
gram.
The researchers are also work
ing on hatcheries for black sea
bass, which have been declining in
numbers since the 1950s.
The Aquaculture program is
able to spawn flounder eggs natu
rally, without using hormone
inductions. This is the first pro
gram to do so successfully on a
large-scale basis. In the past, hor
mones were injected into the fish
daily or given to the fish in pellet
form to get them to spawn.
During a period of four and a
half months the group of 24 adult
flounder produced an average of
50,000 fertile eggs per day.
While the capture of fish from
the world’s oceans has reached the
limit of sustainable yields, there is
See fish FARM, Page 3
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