Greetings fellow HSC monitors & friends,

I am sorry for this tardy email in getting the last and final HSC numbers to everyone for the 2010 season.

Thanks to everyone who came out. It was a beautiful night and a great way to conclude the 2010 Horseshoe Crab monitoring & tagging season for Raritan Bay & Sandy Hook Bay.

I hope everyone will consider joining the watershed council again next year to monitor and tag Horseshoe Crabs.  In fact, feel free to ask a friend to join you.

In the meantime,  below is the data from Saturday, June 26, 2010, starting at 8:30pm.

Sandy Hook/Plum Island

There was a total of 33 crabs. This number includes 31 males and 1 couple. 

Atlantic Highlands/Many Mind Creek

There was a total of 11 crabs. Out of this number there 7 single males, 2 single females, and 1 pair. Plus there was one male crab found with a tag, #190767. I checked the records and this was crab that the Atlantic Highlands crew tagged two weeks earlier, so this crab liked this spot in June.

Middletown Township/Leonardo Public beach

Total of 40 crabs. Out of this number there were 23 single males, 9 single females, and 4 pairs.

Union Beach/Conaskonck Point

Total of 14 crabs. Out of this number there were 12 single males, 1 pairs.

Aberdeen Township/Cliffwood Beach

Total of 41 crabs. Out of this number there were 37 males, and 4 dead male crabs.

Please note, by mid-August I will hopefully have completed the end-of-the-year HSC report for NJDEP and other government agencies.  This report will compare this year's data with last year's data, and should provide some early insight in the crab population in the Bayshore region site locations. Of course I will share this information with all of you.

Much obliged for all your hard work and dedication. See you next year with any luck. Pray now for nice weather! 

Thanks & Fair winds,

Joe Reynolds

Co-Chair

Bayshore Regional Watershed Council

www.bayshorewatershed.org

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