The members of the IBSP upweller team got an early start on the Barnegat Bay Blitz yesterday. They scoured the wetland area near the upweller site and picked up over two dozen glass bottles, two tires, a fire extinguisher, several caps and various other articles of clothing, and even an outboard motor! This was all done in a little over an hour. Pictured below is some of the crew counting their loot.
On Saturday during the clam harvest at Waretown, RCTB member Bruce Beverage was eagerly harvesting a variety of marine life. As the predator nets were dragged to shore Bruce was able to catch the live animals the were entangled in the nets and place them in a large transparent container. Several children and their parents were very intrigued to see the different form of life found in the bay.
Bruce is our fairs and festivals chairman and has attended most of the events for the last three years. He became much more interested in marine life found in the bay after hearing the questions asked by the public at those fairs. When he did not know the answer to a specific question he would go to his computer and “google” an answer. (Is google a verb). After he gathered a great deal of information he decided to put it all on a web site in order to share what he had learned with other interested people. The web site is called Barnegat Bay Shellfish. Check it out.
The weather finally co-operated and over a dozen RCTB members made their way to our Waretown clam lease site on Saturday October 15th. The fall clam harvest begin about 9:30 am and lasted until a little past 12:30 pm. The predator nets were brought to shore. We then brought up over 18,000 clams planted in 2010. They will now be broadcast on undisclosed approved sites though out the Bay. Daniel Nee a reporter for the Brick Patch, an online local news outlet, was invited to observe the harvest and he was able to video our endeavors. To see the video click the this link
Our first kayak
raffle was a huge success thanks to the efforts of Donna Franzoso and
the generous donation of the kayak by the folks at Richie & Page
Distributing, Ally Meehan, vice president of sales and Mike Desider,
area sales manager. The winning raffle ticket was drawn at the
annual Chowderfest last Sunday October 2. The lucky winner was Dave
Della-Croce from Langhorne, PA. The winner for the highest
individual ticket sales will be announced and the prize cooler will
be presented at our next monthly meeting on October 18.
Rick:
