Oysters farmed on tidal flats have a flavor that seafood lovers crave… “The water quality (at the shoreline) imparts a unique sweet, salty flavor to the oyster,” said Mike DeLuca, the director of Rutgers University’s Aquaculture Innovation Center on Bayshore Road in Cape May. “Obviously growers don’t want to lose that.”
Scientists seek ways for oyster farms, red knots to co-exist on Delaware Bay
Joe Moro sold his restaurant in West Chester, Pennsylvania, several years ago and retired to North Cape May and the life of a Delaware Bay oyster farmer. Now he spends five days a week doing manual labor on the mud flats of the bay at low tide, growing…
Bill would simplify aquaculture permit process
Legislation to simplify the permit process for aquaculture projects such as oyster farms in state waters was approved Thursday by the Senate Economic Growth Committee… In 2013, Rutgers University released a survey of oyster farmers in New Jersey. The…
Tropically colored waters making a green splash in South Jersey
There’s definitely something in the ocean water that has South Jersey beachgoers all abuzz… It’s the crystal clear and tropically tinted ocean water, much different than the grayish color swimmers know along the Jersey Shore… “Rivers deposit fresh water sediment into the bays and oceans, and make the water murkier and less transparent,” said Bob Chant, a professor of marine sciences at Rutgers University.
Can Bridgeton’s mayor move the city into the future?
Mayor Albert Kelly stood in front of the city’s economic development office on Broad Street, his arms folded across his chest and a big smile on his face. That smile belies the fact that he leads one of New Jersey’s poorest cities, a municipality still…
Cape farm tour illustrates pains of growing in Garden State
Farming in the Garden State means early mornings, intensive labor and – increasingly – paperwork… Navigating New Jersey’s regulatory landscape is one of the biggest challenges facing today’s farmers, said Jenny Carleo, Cape May County’s agricultural …
Pleasantville pupils ace lessons on golf, physics, life and more
Students from Pleasantville’s North Main Street Elementary School piled out of a school bus and raced into the clubhouse at the Pomona Golf & Country Club on Monday afternoons… North Main Street golf club program advisers Deborah Gaskins and John Grenda and Atlantic County 4-H agent Debi Cole created the program to teach life skills through golf. “For us, it’s the subject that draws the children in,” Cole, 58, of Egg Harbor Township, said.
