Fishery Committee Defers
Making Rule on Crab Pots
Oyster Area tp l?e Closed;
Scrap Fish Discyssed
Action on prohibiting cjrabi
pots was deferred at jthe
fisheries hearing in fore
head City Saturday after
noon. Nobody protested the
closing of the Point of Maj*tjh
area to <ivstering and fac
tions opposing the regulation
on taking and selling scrap
fish were asked to appear
before the commercial fish
eries committee yesterday
afternoon.
Cecil Morris, Atlantic, chairman
of the commercial fisheries com
mittee, presided. Sixty five fisher
men and fish dealers attended.
The crab pot proposal placed be
fore the group pertained to clos
ing the northern portion of the
Neuse River and the northwest
portion of Pamlico Sound.
A crab pot is a new device in
Carolina waters. It is used for the
taking of hard crabs and has
caused extensive controversy be
cause shrimp trawlers say the pots
tear up their nets.
Comments by the fishermen:
R. K. Jaggers, Columbia ? Do
you propose to close any part of
Albemarle Sound to crab pots?
Chairman Morris ? No.
Jimmy Swindell. Hobucken ?
I'm opposed to the closing of any
bottom to crab pots in winter.
Oystering is going down and we
need something to take its place.
Clyde Potter. Belhaven ? I don't
think there's 12 crab pots in that
section you want to close. The
Pungo and Pamlico Rivers are the
big crabbing area. There *s.no need
for getting alarmed about this un
til we see what the crab pots will
do.
Harry Jarvis, Englehard ? I've
heard that they're using pots at
Manteo and getting $150 to $250 a
week. At Stumpy Point, Croatan
Sound, the season could be left
open the year around.
Earl Daniels. Wanchese ? From
Aug. 1 to Nov. 30 crab pot season
in our area is closed. We'd like to
have it opened up. There's very
little shrimping in that area.
Eric Rodaers, administrative as
sistant to cXcD Director Ben Doug
las ? That area was closed in the
recent legislature by request of
Dare County legislators, but Di
rector Douglas has the power to
change that ruling.
Director Douglas said he would
make Aug. 1 to Nov. 30 an open
season in the Dare County area for
the taking of crabs in pots.
Mr. Jarvis of Enghard ? Crab>
pots are out of the way of commer
cial fishermen. They can't shrimp
where the pots are because of the
pound net stakes.
Earl Holton, president of the
North Carolina Fisheries Associa
tion, said his group was in favor
of keeping that season open. He
also presented specific plans for
closing parts of Pamlico Sound to
crab pots but his suggestion, to
wait until early next year when
crab pots will be put out again in
Pamlico, was accepted. If regula
tions are needed then, they can
be made, he said.
Most of the shrimpers said that
after the Virginia crab potters were
told to go home last winter, they
weren't bothered.
Crabbing by Trawl
Wilbur Hudnal. Oriental, (aid
that in the Neuss River crab* are
taken by trawl and men who do
that don't like to see their gear
torn up on pots.
Berkley Willis, Atlantic, remark
ed that a potter has as much right
to act his pots as does the man
who takes crab* in a trawl.
Garland Fulcher, Oriental, con
curred with Halton's suggestion to
delay action on passing crab pot
prohibitive regulations. Mr. Rod
gen stated that the Institute of
Fisheries Research has been asked
to make a study of the crab fishery
during the next few months.
Proposal ta close the Point of
Marsh area to oystering met with
no opposition. The area extends
from Point of Marsh to Sura Point
Including areas up to the Thorough
fare.
Dr. A. F. Chestnut, oyster spe
cialist with the Institute of Fish
eries Research, aald that a portion
of that area should be worked be
fore "too long because if the
oysters get too old, they aren't
prime products. He suggested that
this certain area be opened when
the market for oysters la good.
Mr. Jarvia of Englehard suggest
ed about IS days either before
Thanka giving or Chrlatmaa for the
opening. Dr. Chestnut wax request
ed to confer with Commissioner C.
Q. Holland relative to the time to
be wl
Attorney Appears
Claud Wheatiy, Beaufort attor
;?ey, representing the Seashore
Packing Co. Beaufort, buyer of
scrap flah. asked to present hi*
client'* opinion of the recent
"scrap ftah" regulation.
Chairman Morris iuga*at*d that
be lilim! until Monday, but
whan fiahormen nU Myy cow|dn't
come back then, the committee de
cided to bear arguments "for In
formation."
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The it-rap lith fu Hag makes it
unlawful for ttvimp trawlers to
lake scrap fuh and for Jealei.s to
have scrap liaii in their posses
sion.
Hi Wheatly pointed out that the
companies buying scrap fish make
use of a by product of the shrimp
ing industry. He said if the scrap
fish ruling u enforced. Beaufort
harbor will be full of scrap fish, as
it has been since Friday, simply
because the fish were dumped
overboard.
He suggested that more informa
tion be obtained on the issue but
until then let the scrap fish sales
continue.
Chairman Morris said that the
matted came to a head because
some shrimpers are taking scrap
purposely for sale and the scrap
is not a "by-product of shrimping."
Scrap fish buyers have been paying
a dollar a box for the trash fish,
dehydrating it and selling the
meal.
Mr. Morris said, "It's reached
the point where everybody wants
to buy a dehydrator." He said the
scrap fish regulation applies not
only to shrimpers, but long haul
ers and anybody who takes scrap
fish.
W. H. Potter of Beaufort Fish
eries, said the menhaden operators
are not opposed to the food fish
scrap operatois, as some people
were saying. He said that the kind
of meal turned out at the men
haden factory is superior to the
scrap fish meal and his business is
rtot affected.
In relation to utilization of scrap
fish, he said, "There is possibility,
with proper supervision, of de
veloping a $300,000 to $400,000 in
dustry."
Mr. Jarvis of Englehard, who
operates a scrap fish plant, said
that until he put in his plant at
Englehard everyone was complain
ing about the stench from scrap
fish thrown overboard. People were
poisoned by eating fish that fed
on the dead fish.
Sportsmen to Blame
Actually, he added, most people'
i are too lazy even now to bring him
scrap fish, inferring that they
wouldn't go get it on purpose. He
said the sports fishermen cause the
commercial fishermen the most
trouble. They see the scrap fish
taken in the shrimp trawls and
then start complaining about all
the fish that are killed.
Chairman Morris said that the
commercial fisheries commitjee
had received letters complaining
about the small fish mortality and
that's why. "something finally had
to be done" about the scrap fish.
Mr. Jarvis said, "You can stop
scrap fish taking if you cut out
pound netting, long hauling and
shrimping!"
Vernon H. Lee, Mefry Hill, pre
sented a petition requesting that
seine fishing at the mouth of the
Chowan River in Albemarle Sound
be prohibited. He said the seine is
taking rock fish and white perch.
Lee, a sports fisherman, said he
was "co-leaguing" with pound net
ters of the area to get the seine
fishing stopped. The pound netters
said that if the pound netters may
not work after May 1, they don't
see why a seine should be allowed
to operate.
Supporting that contention were
Willie P. Howell of Colerain, Rich
ard Elliott, and E .C. Howell, Eden
ton, and Jeff White, Merry HiU.
Norman Perry, Colerain, was told
by Mr. Rodgers that as far as he
(Mr. Rodgers) knew, seine fishing
was not illegal but taking of rock
fish now is illegal.
Mr. Waff, Edenton, said he buys
the fish taken in the seine and said
the catches vary from *2 on some
days to $1)000 on others. He said
the seine takes white perch and
carp, which he buys.
Mr. Douglas pleaded with pound
netters to take up ill their old
stakes and the session recessed un
til yesterday afternoon when again
the scrap fish problem was taken
up.
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County tobacco farmers and
their wives voted overwhelmingly
Saturday in favor of continuing
marketing quotas, price support
and a 10-cent per acre leaf assess
ment.
B. J. May, ASC manager who
supervised the referendum, gave
the following vote report:
In favor of quotas for three
more years 506
In favor of quotas for one more
year 6
Against quotas ? 5
In favor of the dime assessment
to promote the tobacco export pro
gram? 497; against 5.
County farm officials' estimate
of the number eligible to vote in
the referendum was raised from
the 600 mentioned last week to
800. Mr. May said that the turnout
at the polling places was the "best
Carteret has ever had."
He attributed the high vote to
the fact that more farmers' wives
went to the polls.
The tobacco program was car
ried throughout the state by a ma
jority of 97 per cent.
12 Members of 1931 Smyrna
Class Meet Thursday Night
It was dinner at The Rex Not
an unusual thing for Carteret falks
but it was a real occasion lor the
12 members of the 1931 graduating
class of Smyrna when they were
reunited there Thursday night for
the first time in many years.
Though the occasion was some
what impromptu, a little telephon
ing and personal contact brought
about the presence of two-thirds
of the class.
The group sat at one large table
where the sharing of all informa
tion garnered from the years
passed was the featured entertain
ment. Since all the members of
the class were unable to be pre
sent at this meeting, plans were
made for a formal reunion in the
latter part of July next year.
Members present at this reunion
planning session were Mrs. Marie
Willis Robinston of McLain, Va ,
Mrs. Dollie Lawrence Loyd of
Louisburg, Tenn.. Mrs. Helen Law
rance Willis of Bettie, Mrs. Edna
GiUikin Hancock of Otway.
Mrs. Mildred W. Willis of Smyr
na, Mrs. Mary Davis Lewis of Mar
shallberg, Mrs. Matilda Davis
Smith of Atlantic, Mrs. Alie Davis
Smith of Beaufort.
Mrs. Matilda Gaskill Pruitt of
Newport, Mrs. Callie GiUikin Har
desty of Beaufort, and Mrs. Zada
Alligood Noe of Beaufort.
Other members of the class are
Mrs. Lucille GiUikin Copeland of
Beaufort, Miss Evelyn Chadwick
of Strait*, Mrs. Armecia WiUis
Take a Rest!
Philadelphia (AP)? A milkman
found this note in an empty bot
tle on his route: "Will you please
be kind this week and not slam
front door? Am on vacation and
do not have to rise at 7 a.m. You
can begin slamming it again next
week as I have to get' up anyhow.
Thanks."
Carroll of Greenville, Mrs. Louise
Golden Bunny of Ocean City, Md.
Mrs. Victoria Davis Mulky of
Milliner, Ga., Mr. Earnest Watson
of Kinston, Mr. Harold Davis of
New Bern, and Albert Fulford of
Beaufort.
Two members, Paul Chadwick
of Straits and Leona Lewis of Ot
way have died within recent years.
Tar Heel Gets More for Tax
Dollar Than Any Other Dollar
In North Carolina the taxpayer
gets more (or his tax dollar than
any other dollar he spends ac
cording to Henry Bridges, slat**
auditor.
Mr Bridges was the speaker at
Thursday night's meeting of the
Morehead City Rotary Club at
Fleming's Restaurant.
Mr. Bridges said North Carolina
was the only state in the union,
with the exception of Delaware,
that has a complete highway sys
tem on the state level, and is the
only state in the nation that has
a 12 grade, nine-month school sys
tem on a state level.
He said rtiost of the tax dollar
spent in North Carolina goes to
schools and highways.
North Carolina, he added, has
as good an accounting system as
could be devised, and though there
still Exists some red tape, it was
his contention that the red tape
protects oi)r tax dollars.
A General Motors executive who
has been looking into state gov
ernments throughout the country
said that North Carolina had the
"straightest, cleanest government"
that he had seen, Mr. Bridges re
ported.
Pointing out that North Caro
lina has been progressing rapidly
he said that the estimated reve
nue back in 1934 was 23 million
dallars. Last year the total had
risen to 190 million.
Of the revenues collected 12
million are collected through the
general fund which includes mon
ey collected in sales tax and b$v
erage taxes.
A great deal is collected by the
state through its special funds,
such as the tax on fertilizer, with
the money to be used only for
agricultural purposes.
Mr. Bridges said that there was
64 million dollars in the Highway
Fund, but most of this money has
been allocated for projects that
are underway and will be under
way in the near future.
Mr. Bridges said that the reve
nue at the June 30th accounting
showed 190 million dollars which
was 2.78 per cent over a year ago,
and it was his belief that the
revenue would hold up since the
nation is on an upswinging busi
ness cycle.
The last legislature cut down
the estimate from 52 million to 19
million needed in additional taxes,
according to Mr. Bridges. Am<fog
the new taxes are a 3 per cent on
all building materials, one cent
additional tax on beer cans and
bottles ,one per cent on motor ve
hicles, 3 per cent on motels and
hotels, and a boost of the liquor
tax from 81* per cent to 10 per
cent.
Government units, federal, state
and local operate 71 per cent of
all the hospital beds in the nation.
He said that the state has a bal
anced budget and that the totaj
expenditures would total 425 mU
lion. There will be 426 millions
available.
|n answer to a query from one
cf (he Pi' '1 - he oa'd th
legislature had not passed a stat
? itUMrting (ax. ftut that U wa
his hope that the next sessijn a
the legislature will pgss one.
Guests at |he meetM inducer
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