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Check out this overhead view of the Raritan Bay and Salinity Levels.

The Fresh water/ low salinity levels can be seen from the middle of the bay all along the Staten Island side. I think this might be the reason it has been pretty slow. The runoff is killing the salt levels and it sucks

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Fresh water rides/lays on top of saltwater due to density differences.

check out this link:


http://www.oregon.gov/DSL/SSNERR/docs/EFS/EFS33mix.pdf

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That and the water temp.

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I'd love to see the same photo of the area just S of Manasquan inlet (namely from the Axel Carlson reef down to Barnegat North)

I bet the salinity is also way off there because of the "flow" from Manasquan inlet - seems like there is just a lack of life in that stretch this year.

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And all the crap that comes with the runoff like lawn fertilizer, etc.

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always bums me out what happens to the manasquan river west of osborne island with just a little bit of rain, let alone a long rainy season. the rainwater hits warm pavement, parking lots, roads etc, is diverted into the drainage ditch and then a sewer and eventually dumps directly into the river picking up debris, road salt, lawn fertilizers along the way. ...does not have a chance to soak into the riparian soil and then filter/leach into the river basin as it should. by heat of summer you have a warmer river with lots of nitrogen and phosphates in it.. the algae blooms and thats that.. you get that opaque, green colored water (read:northern barneget bay) until cold weather comes back. some critters seem to do just fine in this water (crabs, nettles, blowfish, even weakfish) but others do not do so well. of course, standing on my relative's dock where there used to be a riparian zone on the bank observing all of this... I am part of the problem !.. east of osborne the daily tide flush seems to clear out most of this effect.. but as we saw in 2011.. the right winds and weather and the bloom expands out into the ocean and we get a green blob all the way out to 20 fathoms (and beyond, potentially) sorry for the rant *note I am not a tree hugger

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Capt. Allen -
Here is the link for Bottom Slanity along the coast of Jersey - Raritan Bay
you can see the Salinity up afrom sandy hook to mansquan area is very low...

http://hudson.dl.stevens-tech.edu/ma...ncontrol.shtml

this is a great site - Gerry I believed posted it and you can find it under "Fishing Tips" I believe.

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GREAT site. Never knew it existed. Thank you!!!