IMPORTANT BARNEGAT INLET UPDATE…

3/26/14

We're down to the final days of accessing Holgate before the April 1-Sept. 1 bird closure kicks in -- and kicks me out. Oh, well, time to find some mix-and-match alternatives to my near daily drives to the far south end. Not that anything can replace the wilderness area -- the last bastion of un-development on…

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Dragged Down From Below; LBI’s Green Rocks Totally…

Most of you have likely read this already so I'll put the long version in here:

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Hi Jay,

I just wanted to let you know the final MSIB is still being finalized. There is still no hard start date. But I do know that the safety zone encompasses the entire Barnegat Inlet and…

Let Spinning Dogs Do Their Duty; Shooting a Sneering Snowy Owl

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Recreational groups push to make re-allocation in favor of anglers part of Magnuson reform

SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [Trade Only Today] by Reagan Haynes - March 11, 2014

Recreational fishing interests are taking their allocation concerns to Congress which is considering Magnuson reauthorization.  In a Vision…

Sunday, March 09, 2014: Buggy warning: The beaches are far from recovered from the prolonged freeze and snowfall. There are veritable sinkholes scattered from north to south and onto Holgate.  The problem is the capture zones look exactly like safer driving areas. You don’t know you’re into it until…

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Daylight Saving Comes to Life; Cannibalizing Celebrity Salamis

The following is a retort to efforts to reduce or eliminate commercial bunker harvesting. It is obviously biased toward commercialism -- but no more so than ongoing green efforts to protect all bunker from, let's say, any and all human intrusion.

I disagree with some of these retorts. I find them as unproven (unprovable) as the claims they're trying to debunk. However, I'm very intrigued by the distinction being made between "theoretically unfished population" and "virgin"…

Sunday, March 02, 2014: There’s very little chance of missing this approaching winter mess. I tried my hardest to wish it further south but my energy gave out at the worst possible time. I got the worst of the storm out of NYC – and even past southern Monmouth County. Then my wishing gave out as the…