STATE FERTILIZER BILLS: THE GREENEST WAY TO A MORE NATURAL LANDSCAPE?

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, family-filled boats flocked to Tices Shoal in New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay each weekend of the summer to clam. Children and parents alike would put on rubber shoes, hop in the shallow water and search for clams on the bottom of the bay, hoping that what they thought was a clam wasn’t actually a crab about to snip at their fingers. Today, boats still flock to Tices Shoal, but most go to listen to weekly bands that perform on floating stages. The clam populations in the Barnegat Bay have steadily declined since the 1980s and many attribute this decline to nutrient pollution flowing into the bay from many sources, including runoff from turf fertilizer. View More