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The further you get from the New York Harbor the cleaner and better quality water exists. We were at Atlantic City today and the water was a nice greenish,bluish color with many dolphins playing right off the beach.
Hahahha! We are talking JERSEY, not the Florida Keys!
You can see dolphins here in New Jersey from time to time, it's not common, but it does happen.
There have been dolphins in Sandy Hook Bay two years in a row now. The only thing is dolphins and phytoplankton (the green color from the other post) are not particularly good indicators of water quality.
Frequently greener water means plankton bloom, which if off season can mean excess nutrients from effluent (sewage) or fertilizer run off and is not a good thing.
Frequently greener water means plankton bloom, which if off season can mean excess nutrients from effluent (sewage) or fertilizer run off and is not a good thing.
Somehow that seems nicer than the sulfurous brown/yellow water you find around Monmouth county.
Somehow that seems nicer than the sulfurous brown/yellow water you find around Monmouth county.
Monmouth County's ocean bottom is a lot different than Ocean County southward. Monmouth has a rocky bottom with a lot of areas of undersea structure that hold benthic invertebrates that are excellent food for fish. Just because the water is colored differently doesn't mean it's dirty. And it's certainly not "yellow" or "sulfurous."
When you get south of Manasquan Inlet pretty much all the way to Delaware Bay, you have a very traditional sandy bottom without much in the way of structure (rockpiles, mud holes, etc.) and the water color reflects this. That's also why artificial reefs are so amazingly important for recreational anglers in that part of the state - they create excellent habitats for fish where none would otherwise be.
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