THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, March 21, 1995                TAG: 9503210270
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA 
SOURCE: BY BETTY GRAY, STAFF WRITER 
DATELINE: RALEIGH                            LENGTH: Short :   31 lines

CO-CHAIRMAN NAMED TO STATE AQUACULTURE PANEL

Rep. Jean Preston, a Carteret County Republican, has been named co-chairman of a joint Senate and House Committee that studies seafood and aquaculture issues.

House Speaker Harold J. Brubaker, R-Randolph, announced Preston's appointment Monday in Raleigh.

Preston will succeed Rep. E. David Redwine, a Brunswick County Democrat who has held the post for more than five years.

As co-chairman of the Study Committee on Seafood and Aquaculture, Preston will play a major role in fisheries and aquaculture legislation that will come before the committee over the next two years.

She will help control, among other expected legislation, the fate of recommendations from a moratorium study committee and of the coastal sports fishing license.

Preston, a retired principal and school administrator, is beginning her second term in the General Assembly.

As a freshman, Preston led the opposition to a bill that would have banned menhaden fishing off much of the Dare County coast. She will share chairman duties with Sen. Charlie Albertson, a Duplin County Democrat. by CNB