Barnegat Bay

Please DO NOT attempt to try this yourself. The Barnegat Bay is NOT frozen in all places.

Barnegat Bay Island shared video of the release of Humphrey the sea turtle.

Officials have announced that areas of the Barnegat Bay in Lacey will be dredged starting mid-August and be finished by the end of September. The channels to be dredged include the Forked River, the Forked River Middle Branch and Spur, the South Spur and the "Elks" Channel, according to the DOT...

The Forked River, Forked River Middle Branch and Spur, the South Spur, and the channel known as the “Elks” Channel will all be dredged as part of a $2,500,000.00 project announced Monday by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT).

Today marks the unofficial start to summer at the Jersey Shore and you don't have to go very far to have fun.

Local officials are warning people to not attempt to walk on the frozen Banegat Bay. You would think that people are smart enough to realize that it hasn't been that cold for that many days in a row, and the parts of the bay that is frozen, well the ice is just not that thick...

If you're fishing in the Barnegat Bay, be cautious about catching a poisonous fish.

Careful where you go fishing. Officials say what to look out for and what to do if you're stung.

Between May and October each year the Barnegat Bay Partnership (on the heels of their State of the Bay Report release), samples with a 50-foot seine net at numerous parts of Barnegat Bay looking for juvenile fish. Officials have come across a variety of estuarine fish since 2012, but among them four are jellyfish species of which certain types have a potent and harmful sting.

Do our daily activities affect the Barnegat Bay, and how so? There are a number of issues hovering day to day activity in the bay and just about all of them are covered in the Barnegat Bay Partnership State of the Bay Report. Everything from how weather affects the bay, how animals and plants survive on nutrients, and how human behavior affects the bay are all things to be made aware of.

The Brick Town Council approved plans to open a new restaurant overlooking Barnegat Bay.

If your property includes floating docks or manufactured bulkheads, and you're not keeping them scrubbed, you're risking a proliferation future of the stinging, voracious jellyfish called sea nettles. New Jersey environmental officials venture to Ocean County lagoon areas in mid-May, to demonstrate effective maintenance.