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Repairing a Damaged Wetland – a photo journal – Restoring Thompson’s Marsh 4
by Larry Nilesby Larry NilesA vast tidal wetland frames Delaware Bay. Centuries of farming have left the marsh vulnerible to erosion and unproductive.. We took one step to fix it by filling a containment dike to hold mud dredged from a nearby creek.
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With large tides and tidal marsh, Delaware Bay should be producing abundant fish. Serial overfishing, marsh destruction, and careless management ruined the fishery and the productive base on which it relied.
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Shorebirds did not fare well this year on Delaware Bay because of cold weather and too few horseshoe crabs. We need more and there a few simple ways to make more
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20 Years on Delaware Bay – Cool temperatures, windstorms but shoals save the day
by Larry Nilesby Larry NilesThe bay waters warmed in time for a good horseshoe crab spawn, but temperatures plummeted. The horseshoe crabs stopped spawning. The birds got desperate.