Work to install roughly 3,400 linear feet of fencing on both sides of Route 72 along the right shoulder on Bonnet Island to protect the Northern diamondback terrapin is expected to be completed sometime next month. Once it is, the fencing will run from the east abutment of the main span of the Manahawkin Bay Bridge to the west abutment of the west thorofare bridge.

Stephen Schapiro, deputy director of communications for the state Department of Transportation, said the fencing was expressly…