New Jersey Newsroom Editorial: Why is the N.J. DEP supporting the interests of polluters over oyster restoration?
James Tweed, Oyster Farm Manger for Atlantic Cape Fisheries checks on their farm raised oyster beds during low tide in the Deleware Bay.
Photo credit: NJ.com
The recent pronouncement by Bob Martin, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection, that may end more than a decade's worth of oyster research, restoration, education and community involvement in most of New Jersey's northern estuaries is untenable given the DEP's previous support of NY/NJ Baykeeper's oyster restoration program.
It is also disturbing, but not surprising, that New Jersey's inexperienced commissioner has caved in to a minority of special interests within the department and issued a misguided and scientifically indefensible rule-like directive to attempt to stymie research, habitat restoration and oyster gardening that specifically targets Baykeeper.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 8/2/2010 1:00 PM 
Categories: Sea Life
Tags: oyster restoration polluters oysters dep bob martin baykeeper
Categories: Sea Life
Tags: oyster restoration polluters oysters dep bob martin baykeeper
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