Delaware Bay Day, the free folklife festival celebrating the Bay and the Bayshore region, was held on June 7 in Bivalve, Port Norris and East Point, NJ. Hosted by the Bayshore Center, the festival which is dubbed “Food, Fun & Fireworks in Bivalve, NJ,” offered a number of fun activities and historical displays, including educational […]
Fisheries/Aquaculture
The Fun and Sex of Shellfish Restoration
Wet, dirty sex – that’s the topic for discussion of an upcoming class. “It’s the sex talk,” admitted Gef Flimlin, professor and marine extension agent of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County. “Now, the average guy is really interested because he sees those three letters: S, E, X.” This class is the second for ReClam the Bay, the nonprofit organization that is affiliated with the Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program sponsored by Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Ocean County. The class will feature Flimlin discussing how spawning happens in the clam hatchery – the sex part. Flimlin said the class will go from spawning all the way to harvesting.
Ken Able Writes History of the Rutgers Marine Field Station
Fish biologist Ken Able has been the director of the Rutgers Marine Field Station, situated at the end of Great Bay Boulevard, from the very beginning and has written a book about his home away from home for the past 42 years, titled Station 119…In A…
Rutgers Marine Field Station Director Ken Able Talks on Its History
The Tuckerton Historical Society is hosting Ken Able, ichthyologist and the director of the Rutgers Marine Field Station, at its Giffordtown Schoolhouse Museum on Saturday, April 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. Many boaters would recognize the Rutgers Marine Fiel…
ReClam The Bay Seeking Volunteers in Brick
Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE), along with the volunteers in ReClam the Bay are inviting the public to their annual Open House for the ReClam The Bay and the Barnegat Bay Shellfish Restoration Program.
Rutgers Fisheries Research in Mongolia the Subject of Student Film, “The Blue Pearl”
The Mongolian culture has an ingrained traditional respect for water and their cultural practices are aimed at maintaining water quality. The largest lake in Mongolia, known as the Blue Pearl, is sacred to Mongolians. The effects of climate change have had a negative impact on the livelihood of Mongolian herders, who have turned to this […]
Raising Disease-Resistant Oysters at Rutgers Haskin Shellfish Lab
Join Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory Director Dave Bushek on a virtual tour of the facilities and the important research conducted there for WHYY’s Friday Arts. Bushek demonstrates the process of raising disease-resistant oysters and explains how it not only benefits consumers and the oyster industry, but fish and birds as well.
VIMS professor lauded for groundbreaking aquaculture patent
A professor with William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science is one of two to be named "Inventor of the Year" by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame, the college announced Monday. Professor Stan Allen and his colleague Ximing Gu…
Tales of Tuckerton’s Historic Houseboat Cynthia
In the 1880s the succulent Barnegat Bay oyster was harvested in the thousands. The fishery employed around 200,000 people directly or indirectly in the oyster harvesting industry that was centered on Tuckerton, Barnegat and the Mullica River. The oyste…
The Sentinels Of Sandy
Darrell Porter isn’t sure if the decline in crabs making it into the pots this past summer has something to do with Superstorm Sandy or other factors. But it’s a mystery sure to be tied into the delicate nature of the Barnegat Bay ecosystem. "There…
