Spend the day at Island Beach State Park (NJ) and join Dr. Richard Horwitz and other Academy fisheries scientists to collect fish and crabs with seine and dip nets.

Members

• Adults: $25
• Children (ages 8–18): $20

Nonmembers

• Adults: $35
• Children (ages 8–18): $30

This program is open to families with children ages 8 and older. All participants must arrange their own transportation to the field trip site.

In recent years, the Barnegat Bay has become degraded because of water pollution problems. New Jersey is funding a comprehensive ecological study of the Bay. The Patrick Center for Environmental Research will be involved with several of these studies this year and will continue to monitor the marsh areas in the bay for the effects of sea level changes. The Patrick Center Fisheries Section has expertise in stream, riverine, and estuarine fish ecology; environmental impact assessment; biomonitoring; collection and identification of aquatic organisms; habitat and fisheries restoration; fisheries science; and analysis of fish contamination. Our fisheries scientists work in aquatic systems throughout the United States.