{"id":57474,"date":"2024-09-25T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?p=57474"},"modified":"2024-09-21T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T04:31:33","slug":"news-2024-09-25-happy-national-estuaries-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2024-09-25-happy-national-estuaries-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy National Estuaries Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/crew-on-zephrus-boat-dredging-in-ocean-water-under-clear-blue-sky-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/crew-on-zephrus-boat-dredging-in-ocean-water-under-clear-blue-sky-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57466\" style=\"width:480px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/crew-on-zephrus-boat-dredging-in-ocean-water-under-clear-blue-sky-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/crew-on-zephrus-boat-dredging-in-ocean-water-under-clear-blue-sky-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/crew-on-zephrus-boat-dredging-in-ocean-water-under-clear-blue-sky-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/crew-on-zephrus-boat-dredging-in-ocean-water-under-clear-blue-sky-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/crew-on-zephrus-boat-dredging-in-ocean-water-under-clear-blue-sky-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s National Estuaries Week! Estuaries provide vital habitat for a variety of species, such as finfish, shellfish, vegetation, other invertebrates and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NJDEP Fish &amp; Wildlife\u2019s Bureau of Marine Habitat &amp; Shellfisheries team has been hard at work conducting a federally funded survey of hard clam populations in the Sandy Hook Bay. Aboard the Bureau\u2019s R\/V Zephyrus, the team uses a hydraulic hard clam dredge to collect hard clams that are 30mm or larger. The dredge is towed for 100 feet at each station, and after each tow, all catch is sorted. The purpose of the survey is to gather an estimate of the number of adult hard clams and understand where they are found in the estuary. When possible, comparisons are made between past and present surveys to determine how populations have changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about the Bureau\u2019s Inventory of New Jersey\u2019s Estuarine Shellfish Resources, visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/marine\/inventory-of-new-jerseys-estuarine-shellfish-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/fishing\/marine\/inventory-of-new-jerseys-estuarine-shellfish-resources\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s National Estuaries Week! Estuaries provide vital habitat for a variety of species, such as finfish, shellfish, vegetation, other invertebrates and more! NJDEP Fish &amp; Wildlife\u2019s Bureau of Marine Habitat &amp; Shellfisheries team has been hard at work conducting a federally funded survey of hard clam populations in the Sandy Hook Bay. Aboard the Bureau\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":57470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,56,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing","category-saltwater-commercial","category-saltwater-recreational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}