Saltwater Connections is a regional initiative aimed at sustaining livelihoods, cultural heritage, and natural resources along North Carolina’s central coast, from Hatteras Island to Ocracoke and Down East Carteret County.

What’s New

• CARTERET COUNTY FISHERMEN’S ASSOCIATION FISH FRY
  May 25, 2013
  Saturday, June 1, 11 am – 6 pm, Crissie Wright Lodge – Smyrna Fresh Blue Fish w/ All the Trimmings, Dessert and Drink $8 Donation – Tickets on Sale NOW at Mr. Big Seafood (HI), Chadwick’s Tire (Otway) and Core Sound Museum or email Karen Amspacher at kwamspacher@ec.rr.com. Also that day … Down East Bake Sale and a Raffle ...
• Maine restaurants feature underutilized fish
  May 22, 2013
  The Gulf of Maine Research Institute’s Out of the Blue campaign was launched last year and is continuing this year with five different species that will be featured during selected weeks from now into November. The program aims to raise public awareness and demand for lesser-known fish. Read the article here
• Richard Branson on Community Building to Grow Your Business
  May 22, 2013
  When you’re launching a startup, one of your first tasks is to identify potential customers and learn about their needs. This may seem very different from the goals I have described in previous columns about defining your business’s greater purpose and helping to tackle some of the big problems our society faces today, but in fact ...
• Promoting Local Food Systems for Community and Economic Development
  May 22, 2013
  If community leaders, including community and economic development practitioners, want to take steps to promote local food systems, what kinds of things can they do?  The bottom-line is that there are numerous strategies that to some extent all require some degree of public-private partnerships. Local governments clearly can play a critical role, but those efforts ...
• Request for Proposals for Marketing/Public Relations Team
  May 20, 2013
  Saltwater Connections, in coordination with its local partners and community leaders, has identified three distinct, but collaborative, projects that will require the services of a professional marketing-graphics team to work with regional community leaders to address these needs: Task I:  Marketing Consultant to the Outer Banks National Scenic Byway Advisory Committee for Implementation of its Short-Term ...
• Local Food Policy Councils as Community Development Strategy
  May 18, 2013
  One might say that the local foods movement or “locavorism” is all the rage. We’ve done several posts here on the CED Blog about local food systems as they relate to community economic development. I posted a while ago about the local foods movement as community economic development. Sybil Tate wrote a post about efforts ...
• Seafood Throwdown: Day at the Docks 2012
  May 18, 2013
  In 2012, Outer Banks Catch hosted a series of cooking demonstrations and sponsored the Day at the Dock’s Seafood Throwdown, where two local chefs competed to take home bragging rights. Watch the video here
• National Working Waterfront Network (NWWN) May 2013 Network Update
  May 16, 2013
  May 2013 Network Update In this issue Greetings and how to get involved A Very Successful National Symposium in Tacoma Update from NWWN Annual Meeting Working Waterfronts Featured Initiative:  The Sustainable Working Waterfront Toolkit Upcoming Events Greetings and how to get involved This quarterly National Working Waterfront Network (NWWN) eNews is intended to inform our 1,700+ subscribers about current programs, topics, and events ...