Wrack Lines Online Magazine

Fall/Winter 2007-2008

Contents of Volume 7 Number 2

"driven by the sea"

Letter from the Editor #11 136 KB PDF

Features in This Issue:

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Red Shrimp Recipe
Chef Chaz Paull, Daniel Packer Inne
188 KB PDF

Royal Red Shrimp-Stonington's Succulent Secret   480 KB  PDF
by Suzanne Zack
If you haven't discovered these beauties, you're in for a tasty treat!    

Can Eelgrass and Aquaculture Coexist?  804 KB PDF
     by Tessa S. Getchis

Eelgrass is essential for a healthy Long Island Sound. Can it stay healthy in areas where shellfish aquaculture gear is used?

Makeover for the Shenecossett Ponds
by Adrianne Loweth and Juliana Barrett
464 KB PDF
Two ponds owned by a beach club in Groton, CT are threatened by invasive species and sedimentation. What are these ladies planning?     

Shifting Sands, Shifting Perspectives
     by Jenna Whewell   588 KB PDF
As times change, so do Connecticut beaches and the uses people make of them. With beaches a tourist attraction today, some people want them to stay put. Niantic and Hammonassett have some issues.

Remembering Richard Goodwin, Conservation Pioneer        336 KB PDF
by Juliana Barrett
Dick Goodwin was a true friend to the environment. He will be sorely missed.

An SOS for Sharks   180 KB PDF 
      by Peg Van Patten
Illegal shark "finning" and diseases are taking their toll on these beautiful large predators.

 

Cover photo of winter beach

Cover photo: winter at Hammonassett
Beach, Madison Connecticut.
Photo by Jenna Whewell

Wrack Lines
Editor and Design/Production
Peg Van Patten
Irene Schalla, editorial assistant

Editorial Board
Nancy C. Balcom
Sandra Shumway
Sylvain DeGuise, ex officio

Edward C. Monahan
Peg Van Patten, ex officio

Wrack Lines is published twice a year, or as resources allow, as both hard copy and electronic copy, by the Connecticut Sea Grant College Program at the University of Connecticut. Any opinions reflected herein are solely those of the authors.

Correspondence can be sent to Wrack Lines, Connecticut Sea Grant, University of Connecticut, 1080 Shennecossett Road, Groton CT 06340-6048; or e-mail peg.vanpatten@uconn.edu

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