CHILDREN VISIT IBSP UPWELLER

On Monday June 28, the IBSP upweller was visited by a group of enthusiastic and interested children. The group, led by teachers Patti Perrini and Kate Caffee, were part of the Ocean County Parks and Recreation Department’s Cattus Island Park sponsored “Days on the Bay” summer camp. The children were shown how the upweller works as a nursery for baby clams and oysters. They were shown the variety of shellfish in the upwellers and how they grow from the tiny seed clams to those that were one year old and older. Volunteers explained the value of shellfish to the ecology of the Bay and how the children could do their part to help keep the Bay healthy.