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Marine Spotlight
Swan Song for a Multicultural Marine Science Program?
 For the last nine summers, Ben “Doc” Cuker, a professor at Hampton
University in Virginia, has taught sailing and more to college students
from diverse backgrounds. Each June and July, his Multicultural
Students at Sea Together (MAST) program takes these students on a
four-week adventure aboard
The Chesapeake
to learn about marine science and local minority heritage. On average,
Cuker (pronounced Sue-ker) has recruited 59% African Americans, 28%
Hispanics and 9% Native Americans.
But this summer, his student sailors may have navigated
The Chesapeake along its final Bay voyage.
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Loss of Seasonal Workers in Maryland's Crab Industry Takes Toll on Domestic Jobs, Study Finds
The region’s blue crab industry faces more than declining crab stocks
and tight regulations, according to a new analysis by the University of
Maryland’s Sea Grant Extension Program. Restrictive controls on foreign
guest workers, who have become key in the crab picking industry, are
causing an adverse economic impact on both revenues and domestic jobs.
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Maryland Sea Grant Wins Prizes for Chesapeake Quarterly
For the third year in a row, the Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) competition has honored Maryland Sea Grant’s efforts to provide citizens with in-depth, creditable information about issues facing Chesapeake Bay.
The writers and editors of
Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant’s signature publication, took home two prestigious APEX awards.
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Breaking the Grip of Rip Currents
 Swim to the side! That’s the message for beachgoers across the country
during National Rip Current Awareness Week (June 1 – June 7).
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Anthropologist on the Bay
 The blue crab industry faces tough times as crab stocks falter and new
regulations come online. While world-class research has focused on the
biology and ecology of the blue crab, less attention has focused on the
crabbers — on the social and human dimensions of a culture that has
come to depend on the Bay and especially on the blue crab.
That’s the message from Dr. Michael Paolisso, an anthropologist at the
University of Maryland, College Park, who’s studied the culture of
watermen on the Bay. Paolisso has analyzed the worldviews or “cultural
models” of watermen and compared them to the views of scientists,
environmentalists, and managers.
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