Acknowledgments

    For funding we thank the businesses and industries contributing to the Lower Cape Fear River Program, the Cape Fear Environmental Action League, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Cannon Foundation, the Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina (Project # 70156), and Marine Fishery Resource Grant #97-EP8. We thank the N.C. Division of Marine Fisheries, Wilmington Office, and the biologists of Districts 2 and 4 of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission for their cooperation in collecting and transmitting the data used in this report. Field assistance was provided by B. Baldridge of Cape Fear RiverWatch, S. Banner, J. Bichy, S. Budd, G. Compeau, A. Darazdi, J. Griffith, J. Hartsell, E. Johnston, D. Parsons, W. Patrick, C. Powell, S. Roberts, P. Schlenger, A. Skeen, and T. Wheeler. Confirmation of rare fish identification was provided by F. Rohde. S. Roberts produced the figures used in the fisheries report. The N.C. Estuarine Research Reserve kindly provided office support for fisheries work and the vessel used to conduct gillnet sampling. River flow data was provided by J. Bales and D. Walters of the U.S. Geological Survey, Raleigh, N.C., and rainfall data was supplied by the North Carolina Climate Office, NCSU, Raleigh, N.C.

	Back to Table of Contents for 1997-1998 Annual Report
	Back to Lower Cape Fear River Program Homepage