VIDEO: Harvest Reveals Good Season for 'ReClam the Bay'
ReClam the Bay volunteers harvested clams for transplant into the open bay on Saturday morning
Members of ReClam the Bay were in Waretown on Saturday morning to harvest clams they planted last year, with the hope that the small shellfish would have grown big enough to be transplanted into the wild of Barnegat Bay.
Rick Bushnell
5:40 pm on Saturday, October 15, 2011
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Billy
3:42 pm on Sunday, October 16, 2011
Another great piece, Daniel. Nice work.
Joseph Woolston Brick
11:52 am on Monday, October 17, 2011
I remember going down to Windward Beach when it was privately owned, we are talking eons ago, You would always see the little holes where the piss clams were, thousands of them, now you won't find a one. The only thing you dig up now is some kind of snail. Hopefully the clams will migrate from the Bay up the river and the Metedeconk will once again have this life.
Daniel Nee
12:37 pm on Monday, October 17, 2011
Joe -- That would be great, indeed! ReClam the Bay has projects throughout the bay, inclding a couple in Brick. They have also worked on repairing the oyster beds in the northern bay, I believe. The great thing about clams and oysters is that they naturally clean the water. So if we could get their populations up, we'd have a built-in cleaning system. Gotta work on the eel grass, too, of course.
Mark Story Jenks
12:31 pm on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Hard Clams in the video (Mercenaria mercenaria) are a different species then the "piss" clams (Mya arenaria) you refer too. They are Soft Clams. But you are correct, there used to be a lot of them over there. The snails are Periwinkles.
MIC
9:03 am on Tuesday, October 18, 2011
it would work better if the increase the circ rate of the bay