Oyster Creek Generating Station Closure Impact on Barnegat Bay Fish Inconclusive

The coronavirus pandemic that shut down much of the state in March also sidelined a study looking at the 2018 closure of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station and the fish population in Barnegat Bay. Still, the preliminary findings of the study were presented as part of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve Lunch and Learn earlier this month.  

“COVID-19 happened, or we’d still be out there,” Thomas Grouthes, an associate research professor, Rutgers University School of…