Shelling

By Jim McConville • STAFF WRITER • August 3, 2008 Courtesy Asbury Park Press

Sea Bright volunteers plant shells

SEA BRIGHT — "Jersey Fresh" has taken on a whole new meaning for this Shore town.

A handful of borough residents signed up Saturday to be the first class of "aquatic gardeners" who will set up and tend to their own personal oyster seedling beds for a year.  Read more »

Fish kills have recently been reported in Leonardo.  Read more »

Nature Center of Cape May
1600 Delaware Avenue, Cape May, Cape May County, NJ 08204, (609) 898-8848
E-mail: nccm@njaudubon.org  Read more »

Ocean County Beaches

Barnegat

BEACH FEES: Season - $28.00, Season seniors (65+) - $8.00, Weekly - $15.00, Daily - $5.00,  Children 12 & under – Free

Bay beach, fishing, lifeguard, boat ramp. Full Handicapped Accessibility

G.S.P. exit: 67

(609) 698-0080.

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Atlantic County Beaches

Atlantic City

No Beach Fee

Amusements, beach on ocean, casinos, boardwalk, fishing, lifeguard, rafting after hours, scuba diving, surfing.

Full Handicapped Accessibility

G.S.P. exit: 36, 40/38-S, 38-N

(609) 449-7130  Read more »

Monmouth County Beaches

Allenhurst

Daily badge: $7; children under 12 free.

Bathhouses, boardwalk, fishing, lifeguard, rafting, surfing, tennis courts. Full Handicapped Accessibility  Read more »

The state shell is the knobbed whelk, (Busycon carica gmelin), having been so designated by Chapter 89 of the Public Laws of 1995, signed by Governor Christine Todd Whitman April 13, 1995. Commonly known as the conch shell, the shell of the knobbed whelk is large, solid and pear-shaped, coiling from left to right, as seen from its apex. It is yellowish gray in color, with brownish purple axial streaks in juveniles. The shell is found on all beaches and bays of New Jersey.