From oysters ordered out of the polluted waters of Raritan Bay, to an explosion of stinging jellyfish in Barnegat Bay, to a die-off of millions of bunker fish in Delaware Bay, this has been a bad week for the coastal waters of New Jersey.

But four bills passed at an extraordinary joint hearing of the Senate and Assembly Environment Committees may help turn those conditions around.

It may be too late, however for Courtney Sterling, 25 of Toms River and her 4-year-old son Derek.

"I will never come back here, ever," Sterling said, standing on the sands of the town's Shelter Cove Beach.