{"id":1525,"date":"2018-01-17T02:34:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2018-01-17T02:34:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T07:34:06","slug":"83-acres-of-the-toms-river-now-off-limits-to-shellfishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/01\/83-acres-of-the-toms-river-now-off-limits-to-shellfishing\/","title":{"rendered":"83 Acres of the Toms River Now Off Limits to Shellfishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1526\" style=\"width: 1002px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1526\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1526\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.27.00-AM.png\" alt=\"A portion of the Toms River no longer open to shellfishing. (Credit: NJDEP)\" width=\"992\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.27.00-AM.png 992w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.27.00-AM-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.27.00-AM-768x553.png 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.27.00-AM-584x420.png 584w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.27.00-AM-640x461.png 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.27.00-AM-681x490.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portion of the Toms River no longer open to shellfishing. (Credit: NJDEP)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A swath of the Toms River was one of three waterways that saw its allowable areas for shellfishing reduced.<\/p>\n<p>The state Division of Fish and Wilflife published a notice Tuesday, formally announcing the closure of portions of the river, as well as Delaware Bay and Ludlam Bay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Analysis of water samples indicate that portion of the Toms River &#8230; no longer meet the current shellfish growing water classification,&#8221; as determined by state standards.<\/p>\n<p>The exact portion of the river affected is a skinny swath that reaches fully across the waterway between Ocean Gate and Island Heights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/2018\/01\/83-acres-of-the-toms-river-now-off-limits-to-shellfishing\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swath of the Toms River was one of three waterways that saw its allowable areas for shellfishing reduced. The state Division of Fish and Wilflife published a notice Tuesday, formally announcing the closure of portions of the river, as well as Delaware Bay and Ludlam Bay. &#8220;Analysis of water samples indicate that portion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,9,3],"tags":[507,508,158,11],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-weather","category-featured","category-government","tag-clamming","tag-shellfish","tag-toms-river","tag-toms-river-nj-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-17-at-2.27.00-AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}