Results of final HSC Event for 2011

Greetings fellow HSC Monitoring Folks & Friends!

The results for Wednesday, June 15th are below. It seems Cliffwood Beach has regained top crab count with 149 total crabs. Sandy Hook (Plum Island) was not far behind with 131 total crabs. Congratulations to all. It was a beautiful evening to be out along the edge of the bay to socialize with Horseshoe Crabs!!!

Thank you, thank-you, thank you to one & all who participated in this season's Horseshoe Crab monitoring and tagging event for 2011!!!!! It was a great success!! I hope you will join us next year during full and new moon evenings in May & June to count and tag crabs in Raritan Bay & Sandy Hook Bay! We cannot continue this important project without you and other volunteers!!!!

So please mark your calendars now to keep free full and new moon evenings in May & June 2012 to hang out with Horseshoe Crabs! I can't think of a better way to spend my spring!!!

By September, I hope to send out the final report for 2011. It will include a review of this  year's crab activity and the two previous years this program has been conducted.  The report will start to provide a nice overview to see if the crab population is stable or not.

Thanks again for your help & time. Much obliged to all. I hope to see you in 2012 if not sooner.

Fair winds,
Joe Reynolds
Co-Chair
Bayshore Watershed Council
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Sandy Hook: Plum Island
131 total crabs
 101 single males
5 single females
6 male/female pairs
1 cluster (2 males/ 1 female)
8 dead males
2 dead females

Atlantic Highlands: Mouth of Many Mind Creek
Total: 70 crabs
59 single males
0 single females
3 pairs
0 clusters
5 dead crabs: 3 males & 2 unidentified sex
 
Middletown Township: Leonardo Beach
Total:  117 crabs
87 single males
0 single females
15 pairs (male & female)

 Union Beach: Conaskonck Point
Total: 85 crabs
59 single males
0 single females
12 pairs
2 dead crabs, unidentified  

Aberdeen Township: Cliffwood Beach
149 total live crabs
108 single males,
139 total live males, including 31 which were in clusters and 10 females which were all in clusters
0 single females,
11 clusters consisting of 2 or more crabs and all but one cluster included a female;
There was a greater prevalence of brief encounter 2 male clusters than former survey nights presumably due to the lack of females:
There were 3 dead females &c2 dead males.
One live single male counted was formerly tagged.  His number is 190307***
***The crab must have been tagged sometime this season, because the number is not yet in the system to track.


 

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