SEINE THE BAY DAY THIS SUNDAY!

Join members of the all-volunteer Bayshore Watershed Council on Sunday, June 11, 2017 for Seine the Bay Day along Raritan Bay & Sandy Hook Bay in New Jersey!
 
You are invited to help us. Bring a friend or bring your family. The event is free!
 
Seine the Bay Day is an annual early summer event. Volunteers will help drag a long net (called a seine net) through the water to find out what might live in the shallow part of the bay. The catch is never the same; we may catch juvenile fish, shrimp, or even baby puffers or seahorses in the net.  It should be a fun day.
 
Times and locations can be found below. Rain or strong winds will cancel the event.
 
Seining team members will be citizen scientists. All fishes, crabs, and other aquatic creatures will be identified, measured, and cataloged; and returned to the water.
 
In addition, watershed members will collect water temperature and turbidity information; and document the tidal stage, and note the aquatic vegetation in the area.

We will conduct this early summer seining survey at four (4) sites along Raritan Bay & Sandy Hook Bay. Below are locations & times. High tide is around 10:00am.

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10:00am
Aberdeen Township/Cliffwood Beach - meet in the gravel parking lot near the beach entrance along Ocean Blvd. (High tide)

11:30am
Union Beach/Conaskonck Point - meet in the gravel parking lot where Front and Dock streets meet. (outgoing tide)

1:00pm
Middletown Township/Port Monmouth - meet in the gravely parking lot across from the Monmouth Cove Marina on Old Port Monmouth Road. We will seine near the mouth of Pews Creek. (outgoing tide)

2:30pm
Atlantic Highlands/Mouth of Many Mind Creek - meet at the end of Avenue A, near the beach entrance to the bay. On-street parking only. (outgoing tide)