Every five years, the Barnegat Bay Partnership, a national estuary program, releases a State of the Bay report, prepared using data from recent and ongoing research to assess the current environmental conditions of the bay and its watershed. The 2021 State of the Bay Report, made public earlier this month, compares current conditions with eight “ecosystem targets” identified in the 2021 Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan for the Barnegat Bay – Little Egg Harbor Estuary.
“Specific environmental outcomes which can be monitored to measure progress, the targets address public beach openings,…
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