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| | Sea Grant News Media Center - August 1996 Story Shorts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In what has been compared to a "pick your own strawberry patch," a lease facility in Hatteras Island, NC, stocked full with clams, is offering visitors a chance at raking their own dinner. |
 | | The project, funded by the National Resources Research and Development Institute (NCRI), is the brainchild of shellfish grower Kevin Midgett, who operates the lease, and the director of North Carolina Sea Grant's Marine Advisory Service, Jim Murray. |
 | | Specifically targeting this bacteria, we could arrest the worm's ability to bore." Shipworms, which are actually clams specifically designed for boring, have shown enormous voracity in their destruction. |
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