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Shad Fishing Lewis Fishery

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Shad Fishing Lewis Fishery

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Horseshoe Crab Spawning – A Field Report

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Hey it’s Kurt Mann from Ocean Today. Our crew just completed a three day shoot here on Delaware Bay documenting the amazing horseshoe crab. 

I’m on Pickering Beach where we filmed thousands of horseshoe crabs spawning on the water’s edge. We also joined citizen volunteers who, every year, do a survey to find out how many males and females are coming to the shores and tracking that year after year.

Are horseshoe crabs really crabs?

Horseshoe crabs are “living fossils” more closely related to spiders and scorpions than they are to crabs.

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Heronry

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Heronry

Photo credit: Scott Sharadin

Pea Patch Island is a summer home to nine different species of herons, egrets and ibis. The remote marshes provide an outstanding habitat for one of the largest wading bird nesting area on the East Coast.

Port Size

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Port Size

Photo courtesy of Port of Philadelphia

White it is fourth in the nation in the amount of cargo tonnage handled, and second in the number of ship arrivals, Philadelphia is the largest freshwater port in the world!

American Shad

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American Shad

The American shad is the largest member of the herring family. Adults commonly reach four to eight pounds. They are among the strongest and hardest-fighting fish found in the Delaware River. American shad begin their lives in freshwater. After hatching in the spring, they migrate downstream to the Atlantic Ocean. After three to five years at sea, they return to the river of their birth to spawn.

Atlantic Sturgeon

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Atlantic Sturgeon

The Atlantic Sturgeon is a prehistoric fish that has existed for more than 120 million years. Once so plentiful that the Delaware Bay was called the “caviar capital of the world,” the Atlantic Sturgeon is now on the endangered species list.

Baseball’s Dirty Secret

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Baseball’s Dirty Secret

Iron Pigs pitcher Cole Irvin showing little leaguers how to properly ‘mud’ a baseball like the pros with Lena Blackburne Rubbing Mud from the Delaware River.

During the 1930’s, Philadelphia Athletics coach Russel “Lena” Blackburne scooped up some mud while fishing on the Delaware River. Today, “Lena Blackburne Baseball Rubbing Mud” from that secret location is used by every major and minor league baseball team to prepare new balls before a game per MLB rule 4.01(d).

Half of NYC’s Water…

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Cannonsville Reservoir- Photo Credit: Thomas Klaiber

Half of NYC’s Water…

Though New York City is not in the Delaware River Basin, about half of its water supply is provided by three reservoirs (Cannonsville, Pepacton & Neversink) in the Basin. That’s about 568 million gallons a day.