Wrack Lines Online Magazine

Fall/Winter 2006

for winter 2006-2007

Contents of Volume 6 Number 2

"driven by the sea"

Letter from the Editor #9 303KB PDF

Features in This Issue:

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Find Your Way Around Long Island Sound
     by Peg Van Patten
Some great new digital maps from the Long Island Sound Resource Center will give you a new perspective. 132KB PDF

Recapturing the Unsinkable Spirit of the Bonhomme Richard    
     by Melissa Ryan
A search is underway for the remains of this 18th century vessel captained by John Paul Jones in one of the most memorable naval battles in U.S. history. 1.2MB PDF

Mr. Meaney Goes to Washington
as a Sea Grant Knauss Fellow
     by Peg Van Patten

Lucky Yale graduate student Christopher Meaney has been selected a John A. Knauss Sea Grant Marine Policy Fellow, and will be placed in a federal office on Capitol Hill in 2007. 268KB PDF

Beware of the Red Menace
    by Peg Van Patten
a non-native red seaweed in now established in parts of Eastern Long Island Sound. What will the impact on native organisms and ecosystems be?  1.6MB PDF    

Say Hola to Mexican Tuna!
Researchers and Ranchers Meet to Assess Aquaculture Practices
     by Peg Van Patten and Monica Allard Cox
High quality Mexican tuna demands a high market price. But tuna ranching uses wild stock. Should the practice transition to tuna farming, wherein the tuna are raised entirely in captivity? 1.1MB PDF

HACCP Drives Safe Seafood    
      by Nancy Balcom
Seafood handlers are trained in "HACCP" principles to ensure seafood is handled safely between boat and market. You can use the same principles in your kitchen at home. 832MB PDF

New Faces at Connecticut Sea Grant    
     by Peg Van Patten

Meet connecticut Sea Grant's new Director, Sylvain De Guise, and new coastal habitat expert Juliana Barrett. 288KB PDF

Wrack Lines

Editor and Design/Production
Peg Van Patten

Editorial Board

Nancy C. Balcom
Hans G. Dam
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

 

New Publications From Connecticut Sea Grant    
     by Peg Van Patten

Two new free publications from Connecticut Sea Grant include a laminated guide to the common seaweeds of Long Island Sound and a fact sheet about Grateloupia turuturu, an invasive seaweed in Long Island Sound. 404KB PDF
 

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