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Clayton Fulcher Establishes Successful Firm Clayton Falcher, Atlantic ?? faad dealer, has eAablished a moat successful flak business. Km retired, Mr. Fulcher likes to tell of how. practically penniless, he went to Bayboro 23 years ago to Mk ? |ab ? (UMter of a run boat tar SM a week Tkssfk ill health forced Mr. Flickers llUlnl in 1M1, his two SMS. Clayton ir. and Harry, M? carrying an very rapaMy in Ms place. The faunder of Hie business still takes a keen interest In its afTlirs. awl keeping him from fir rit daily visits to the office and pUm would be impossible. When just a lad. Mr Fulcher began fishing with Ms father, CIMataptiar. In ino he set out for IU\t>oro ? bummed a ride, he relates, because be didnt own a car at that time ? and took a jot) with Leckler Lewis, a Bayboro dealer who now lives in Kinston. Within ? yew. Mr. Fulcher was ?Share, managing Lewis's fish house. And it wasn't lang before Ike enterprising young fisherman aliened his own business in Bay boro. Harbor Dredged The year 1#37 brought an im portant change ta Fulcher 's home town, Atlantic, when the PWA built a harbor at the paint where the Ocracoke mailboat now docks. It Wss now possible for fishermen to bring their catches to docks built close to shore. Previously, catches had been hauled in over long docks built out over the shal lows to the deep water. Another important change as far as the fishing industry was con cerned, was the building at about the same time of an ice plant in Atlantic by Or. O. C. Daniels of Oriental. Mr. Fulcher purchased this plant a few years later. Today the Fulcher Seafood Co. extends several hundred feet along the harbor. The docks are crowd ed with trawlers and run boats, many of them owned by the com pany. Modem equipment is the order of the day, both in the plant and on the boats. Daring -the peak of tile season, more than 73 employees are on the weekly (kyroll, which averages 30 to 40 year-round. Catches of fish are unloaded at the dock by machinery, and dump ed intp conveying equipment. As the conveyor brings them into the plant to be graded, the fish are washed with fresh water. Grading is done by hand by workers who stand at the sides of the moving conveyor belt and select the fish to be packed. The shrimp house is a fairly Three generations ? the founder of the Clayton Fuleher Seafood Co., center, stands with his two sons, Harry, and next to Harry, Clay ton Jr., and Clayton 111, age 9. .new building, extending about 75 feet over the water. In this frame building with a concrete floor, 60 women work at one time, heading shrimp which are conveyed in a trough of flowing water to the au tomatic grader. The grader sep arates the catch into four classes. The workers can head as many as 40 boxes, or 4,000 pounds of shrimp in an hour. Operate Ice Plant Shrimp and fish are packed in ice from the company's own plant, which has a capacity of 15 tons per day. As fast as it can be moved, usually within a day. the catch is on its way to the tables of sea food fanciers hundreds of miles away. The company formerly owned its own fleet of trucks but sold out a few years ago to a New Bern com pany. which now contracts to do the hauling. An interesting portion of the plant is the dehydrating section, where all was|p material such as shrimp heads *nd inedible fish, are reduced t6 scrap for animal feed. This operation is profitable and eliminates the former practice of taking all waste products to sea to be dumped. The Fulcher fleet consists of 13 boats, ranging in size from the Ina Lucille, a 71-foot diesel-power ed trawler equipped with depth re corder and automatic pilot, down to the run boats, gas-powered ves sels less than 40 feet in length. All boats are equipped with radio telephones. The four largest boats, all diesel powered, shrimp in the summer and fish north of Hatteras in the winter. Working at a depth of 15 to. 20 fathoms, these boats ply the area from Cape Lookout to the Vir ginia Capes, catching mostly croak ers, trout, and 9ea mullet. The Ina Lucille is captained by Henry Fulcher of Atlantic; the 65 foot Clay by Julian Willis of At lantic, who has been with the com pany for 20 years; the 60-t'oot Verna R. by Harry Brickhouse, At lantic; and the 50-foot Linda Gail by Fred Goodwin of Cedar Inland. Also diesel-powered are tbp 47 foot trawlers Novelda, skitfjbectd jv Bradford Nelson of Harkero iAaifa, and the Betty E.. *hose capUia is* Randolph Mason, Atlantic. Completing the actual fishing fleet ane the gat-powered Mjdoc, captained by Ishmael Mason, an! the Genevieve with Arlie Daniels as captain. Five /un boats, the Clayton Jr., the Harry, the Muriel, the Marioa A., and the Elizabeth, are kept bus? supplying the larger boats, whici often stay out for a week at a time, bringing in the catch of iarga boats as well as that of some 80 or 90 other vessels from which the company regularly buys. Shop Repairs Boats The company maintains its own machine shop, where welding, and all sorts of repairs and mainte nance is done by Robert Good wis and A1 Jones, both of whom have been with the company 15 year* Eyes ever open for possible im provement and expansion, th Fulchers plan to replace the woo~ en building which houses the main part of the shop with a concrete block structure requiring less main tenance. The elder Clayton Fulcher, son of an Atlantic fisherman and grand son of Capt. "Wall" Morris, Har bor Island lighthouse keener, mar ried the former Miss Betty Mason of Atlantic in 1016. His oldest son, Clayton Jr., was graduated from high school in At lantic in 1937 and from Elon Col lege in 1941. During World War U he served with the Navy, at taining the rank of of lieutenant and serving in both the European and the Pacific theatres. Served on Minesweeper After a year and a half aboard a minesweeper in the Mediter ranean, he was transferred to the Island of Saipan, where he was made fishing officer for the United States Navy Military Government. Clayton Jr. is married to the for mer Miss Iris Jarvis of Straits, and they have a 9-year-old son, Clay. Mrs. Fulcher owns and operates the Cedar Island Beach fishing pier, about 10 miles east of Atlan tic, which extends 1,300 feet over Pamlico Sound. Operated in con junction with it is the Driftwood Motel. The pier, opened in 1954, was washed away during the Oct. 15, 1954 hurricane, but was rebuilt for the 1955 season. Clayton has been in the business with his dad since 1946. when he returned from service. Harry has been with the company since his graduation from high school in 1943. The two brothers took oVer full responsibility in 1951. Jflarty, the younger brother, is Wftrried to the former Miss Lucille [Lewis of Marsha llberg. They have ? ' Duke Laboratory (Continued from Page 1. Section 7) of his publications were concerned with the parasitic Crustacea which attack fish. Prom 1*50 to the present Dr. Wanda Sanborn Hunter and Dr. Winona Vernberg have been among our most productive workers. They are making a systematic survey ot the parasites of marine animals, studying their complex life cycles which are often found in several marine animals. In addition, they are conduct ing physiological studies on some of the more important parasites. To the writer's knowledge, no pa rasitological work is being done by the state or federal laboratories of this area. Even though every staff mem ber from the botany and zoology departments of Duke University is free to work on research prob lems of his own choosing, it is gratifying to the director of the Duke University Marine Labora tory that so many are working on marine problems. It makes for a well balanced program. The administration of Duke Uni versity and the executive com mittee of the marine laboratory wish to encourage investigators from other colleges and univer sities to share our facilities. They diversify our program and provide for an exchange of ideas on ma rine problems. A separate research building two children; Linda Gail is 7 and Harry Michael, 3. Active In Church The Fulcher family is active in the church life of the community, all holding offices in the Baptist Church or Sunday School. Clayton Sr. serves on the board of trustees of the church, which is now build ing a handsome new brick struc ture. completely air-conditioned, at a cost of about >125,000. Clayton Jr. is a deacon and Harry is a Sun day School teacher. Looking out at the company whose success his hard work and business ability have made possi ble. the retired member of the firm often muses about what he could have done 35 years ago if he had just one of the fishing boats which his company now owns. "Home is the sailor, home from But one gets the he wishes he werent! was built in IMS lad mother was jdded in 1964. Since 1950 a aew hard rubber saltwater system haa been installed and modern eqaip ment such as a refrigerated cen trifuge, chlorimeter, dark room, ft e. have been added. With better facilities, investigators are coining from more distant areas. To encourage research workers from the southeast to take adwin tage of our laboratory, four WOO postdoctoral grants are given an nually. ; Hie aecond main fuactioa of the Duke University Mariae Utart tary ii to train mi rial Nelogwu. Fundamental rouraes are olfeted on the Duke University campui throughout the scholastic year, hut in th? summer lit senior graduate wark In botany and aootof}' it of fered at the marine laboratory in Beaufort. They cany six semester hours eredit and may be taken by stn dents from any college or univer sity in the nation. It has been the custom to offer three basic courses each summer, such as marine eco logy, marine invertebrate zoology, and either maHne algae or marine microbiology. These courses are given by staff members from Duke University who have taught at Beaufort for many years. To broaden the program and to allow some variety, the fourth course is usually changed each year and given by men from other ?natHMioo*. Far exa^la. Me Uafrcntty m cooperation wA U S. Hsk mm) WiWUfc Cental 4>f < lered qualitative biology in 1990, biology of population! in 1951, and bio-hydraulic* in 1952. ?' Outstanding men wel* procoarj to give these caursaa and they were attended, very largely, by men from the V S Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1953, Dr. Doaaid Pritchanl. director of Chesapeake Bay Insti tute of Johns Hopkins University, was obtained to offer oceanogra phy. In 1954 and this summer, ra diation biology was given. The instructional program at the , Duke University Marine labors- ' tory has drawn students trim the mid west, north and south. It has offered training to men in Iht U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and to graduate students who are going to devote their life to problems In marine biology. MARMAC PRODUCTS Have developed a new Heavy-Duty GOVERNOR ? and Transmission control for all make* of marine diesel engines with hydraulic transmis*ions, using heavier cable* with 4-inch travel. Thi> control it designed especially for fish- ^ ing fleet* and tugs and i* known a* 1 the Model F. Be sure and check into this new unit when re-powering or changing your control equipment. MARMAC PRODUCTS 2400 BelUvue Ave. Detroit 7, Michigan r - ? ? Wholesale Shippers of Fresh & Salt Water Fish We can now supply you with FLOUNPERS, BLUE FISH, SPANISH MACKEREL, SPECKLED TROUT, MULLETS, PAN TROUT, ROCK or STRIPED BASS, SPOTS, HOG or PIG FISH, WHITE PERCH, SEA BASS or BLACK FISH, SEA PORGIES, DRESSED CAT FISH, SHRIMP and OYSTERS. Globe Fish Company is headquarters for the best fresh fish. Let us supply you. Rob?H and Roydan Daniels GLOBE FISH CO.. INC. PHONES 2987 - 4196 - 29M ELIZABETH CITY, N. C ? ? " .1/ " '? .? .. ' . - ?? . ? ? ? ?V'JJffi 1 v, "fv ... " - ' ' ?? ?: 1 1 , . . ? .*> . ? ; ? . ? . / . ?- ?. ,/ ? ? ? ? 1 ? ' ? i ? -3 ? I ? I ? - ? 1? ? i- I I I i ? ' , . ' ' P.O. BOX 2S5 /
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