Delaware Bay

Northeasterly winds keeps Delaware Bay water cold and holding back horseshoe crab spawning and making life difficult for migrant shorebirds

In our 24th year of work on Delaware Bay Shorebirds and horseshoe crabs, the year of COVID 19 has brought an ecological lockdown from cold water.

Wildlife work during a pandemic Death and suffering spread across…

A 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.

Economic class often determines the extent to which the government intervenes against coastal resiliency. Money Island, NJ shows how.

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.