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Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_17 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
Digitizing Sponsor: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center

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imported product. We also are trying to increase awareness of the abundance and nutritional value of shrimp in North Carolina." r TRUCK RIDE TO NEW YORK Five days a week, Wanchese Fish Company's trucks deliver seafood — caught from their boats and by other North Carolina companies — to locations across / the East Coast On Sundays through Thursdays, the 18-wheelers leave from Wanchese Fish Company's office in a concrete building on the waterfront in the tiny community of Wanchese. The trucks go to Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York markets. On a recent day, one man loaded crabmeat and hard crabs onto one truck and fish onto another with a forklift. The seafood is stored a refrigerated section of the trailer. "We freight everybody else's seafood," says uiser Midgett of Wanchese Fish Company. \fe send at least five trucks a week to New York, metimes we send as many as 10 to 15. We are t packing as many fish as we used to because of )re government regulations." After the trucks are loaded, the drivers arrive. 5t, Voliva, a burly man dressed in a T-shirt and ins, loads his quilt, cooler and pillow into the ck of the cab — an efficiency apartment with rtains separating the driving section from bunks, y closets, a cubby hole wired for a TV and frigerator. The front has a CB radio and a state- f-the art map tracking system. A few minutes later, Woolard, a tall man with glasses, puts his belongings in the back. Woolard is one of eight Wanchese Fish drivers who transport seafood back and forth on the East Coast. Two pairs are husband and wife teams. On the drive to New York, Voliva leaves the parking lot at the seafood company around 2 p.m. First, he heads 1 down N.C. 345 past businesses and a long stretch of marsh. Then he turns and

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