Last weekend, volunteers with the Mordecai Land Trust and ReClam the Bay planted shell bags around the shoreline of Mordercai Island, off Beach Haven.

“The shell bags will not only attenuate erosive wave forces on Mordecai’s shoreline, but they will form a living habitat of filter-feeding bivalves to remove excess algae and harmful nutrients from the bay water,” said Jim Dugan, Mordecai Land Trust restoration coordinator.