Tatting, once lost, now found
Not long ago, tatting was considered almost a lost art, but a Southern Shores resident is doing her part to bring it back to life.
Tatting, a technique for making particularly durable lace, was first conceived in the mid 1800s. The finished products are made by a series of knots and loops. The result can be a wide assortment of articles ranging from doilies, collars and other decorative pieces. The lace is formed with a series of half-hitch knots called double stitches over a core thread.
Ann Marie Parlette said she failed as a little girl to learn the craft of tatting from her mother, but after waiting 40 years, she was taught the art by the late Margaret Mills. The second attempt took just three months. ...
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Fishing advocacy groups call for state actionTwo advocacy groups have asked the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission (MFC) to take steps to protect the state's seafood industry. The MFC will discuss those requests Thursday morning during its business meeting in Wilmington.
In a letter dated March 17, North Carolina Watermen United (NCWU) requested that commissioners ease restrictions on the commercial harvest of five species of finfish in order to "avert the immediate threat of the economic failure of the state's seafood industry." ...
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Along the "seafood" topic, here is a snippet from a Jacksonville Daily News article (http://www.jacksonvilledailynews.com/) about the rise in popularity of stone crab claws in N.C. The Marine Fisheries Commission, however, may decide to crack down on this practice.
The issue at hand is harvesting the crabs JUST for the claws:
"If you harvest the claws and throw back the body, the claws will regenerate in 16 to 18 months, said Chris Taylor, research biologist with N.C. State University’s Center for Marine Sciences and Technology.
While fishermen mainly asked for a rule to prohibit the harvest of stone crab bodies, fisheries managers looked at a 1980 study in Florida that found that the immediate mortality rate (47 percent) of stone crabs with two claws removed was nearly twice that (28 percent) of stone crabs with one claw removed.
" 'That’s pretty significant mortality,' said Rich Carpenter, Southern District manager for the Division of Marine Fisheries. ..."
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