Author: Student

Pollution Could End One of the Navesink’s Favorite Pastimes.

Design Developed by the MAST class of 2019

Blue crabs are very cool animals. They have very interesting migration patterns. Normally, blue crabs migrate north during the summer to get to their normal water temperature. Now they have been moving all the way up towards maine, when they are normally found up at cape cod. This is a very interesting fact about the blue crab.

Crabs can be difficult to catch if you do not know what you're doing. If you do not know what you are doing here are some tips to make crabbing easier.
1: Catch Crabs in the morning. Most crabs our out then and it is cooler out. Also where a hat.
2:Shake crabs out of nets. Never touch a crab with your bare hands.
3:Keep the crabs wet in the bucket. This keeps the crab alive while you are out fishing.
4:Bring a second person: more people makes everything go faster and can get more crabs

Crabbing on the Navesink is a very fun time. The Red Bank Marina is the perfect place to go. If you are a first timer they have everything you would need to go out and have a good time. In total if you rent everything, it costs around 120 dollars, but it's well worth it. You can use traps or nets whichever you prefer. On the river anything is possible.

In order to crab and have many other experiences on the Navesink, we need to stop polluting the river. Its ruining the wildlife. It's killing the organism in the water including the crabs. We have been unable to shellfish in 567.5 acres of the river, which is one third of the river. That's insane. Boaters are one of the main causes, they are dumping their waste into the river. Now We can stop this and it all starts with you. IF you can spread this message or stop polluting it yourself than the river will come back. Don't ruin this beautiful pastime for any other people. Stop the pollution and it starts with you.

Crabbing is one of the favorite pastimes of our visitors at the Navesink, however pollution is making it harder and harder for this activity to be enjoyable. We urge you to support Clean Ocean Action in its quest to save the Navesink.