NYCkayaker Beach Clean Up - Trash Bash ----- Jamaica Bay by Sebago Canoe Club and American Litoral Society

Tue Sep 4 18:38:20 EDT 2007

      Beach Clean UP - Trash Bash and Picnic
      <http://sebagocanoeclub.blogspot.com/2007/09/beach-clean-up-trash-bash-and-picnic.html>

Trash Bash on Saturday, Sept. 8 (rain date Sept 9).

This is a volunteer activity to support the American Littoral Society 
<http://www.alsnyc.org/>'s shore line clean up. Sebago Canoe Club has 
traditionally helped by taking charge of the shore line around Canarsie 
Pol. We have the bags and some gloves (if you have thick work gloves 
bring them).

We will launch from the club at 10 am.

If you are NOT safety certified you need to launch with the group. If 
you are safety certified and would like to join us later on Canarsie 
Pol, that's great. If you are other club members wanting to join in, let 
us know.

We will plan to return to the Club in the early afternoon (around 2:30 
to 3) for a picnic (hot dogs, beer, soda, etc).

If you want to help with the food, please let me know. I am hoping that 
we will also fit in a paddle around Canarsie Pol.

Please call or email me to let me know you are coming.

Mary 718 768 8432.

sebagocanoeclub at gmail.com (which will be mailed to Mary's personal email)

--- Background on Jamaica Bay ---

http://sebagocanoeclub.blogspot.com/2007/08/little-place-called-jamaica-bay.html

And here is some pictures of birds 
<http://www.scholtz.org/bill/nature/Locations/JamaicaBayNWR.html> 
commonly found in the bay. I linked many of these species to various 
pictures and sources notably wiki pages.

"The *waters and sediments of Jamaica Bay* are a highly productive and 
regionally significant habitat for finfish, shellfish, and wildlife. 
Eighty-one species of fish were found to use Jamaica Bay in a survey 
conducted by the National Park Service in 1985, corroborating other 
findings. The majority of fish collected were juveniles using the bay as 
a nursery area. Winter flounder (/Pleuronectes americanus/) was the most 
important commercial and recreational fish to use the bay in great 
numbers during all life stages; the bay is also believed to be a 
significant breeding area for this species. Forage fish species with 
high abundances, including Atlantic silverside 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_silverside>(/Menidia menidia/), 
bay anchovy (/Anchoa mitchilli/), mummichog/ (Fundulus heteroclitus/), 
Atlantic menhaden <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_menhaden> 
(/Brevoortia tyrannus/), and striped killifish /(Fundulus majalis/), 
form a prey base for other fish and birds that use the area. Some of the 
other common species found in surveys and recreational landings include 
scup <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scup> (/Stenotomus chrysops/), 
bluefish <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish> /(Pomatomus 
saltatrix/), windowpane (/Scophthalmus aquosus/), tautog 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tautog>/ /(/Tautoga onitis/), weakfish 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakfish>/ /(/Cynoscion regalis/), black 
sea bass <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_sea_bass> (/Centropristis 
striata/), summer flounder/ /(/Paralichthys dentatus/), American eel/ 
/(/Anguilla rostrata/), and searobin (/Prionotus/ spp.). Anadromous 
species that use the area include blueback herring/ (Alosa aestivalis/), 
Atlantic sturgeon (/Acipenser oxyrhynchus/), alewife (/Alosa 
pseudoharengus/), American shad (/Alosa sapidissima/), and striped bass 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striped_bass> (/Morone saxatilis/)."

*Federally listed endangered*
Atlantic (=Kemp's) ridley sea turtle 
<http://www.fws.gov/endangered/i/C0R.html> (/Lepidochelys kempii/)
roseate tern 
<http://ecos.fws.gov/speciesProfile/SpeciesReport.do?spcode=B07O> 
(/Sterna dougallii/)
peregrine falcon (/Falco peregrinus/)

*Federally listed threatened
*loggerhead sea turtle 
<http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/turtles/loggerhead.htm> (/Caretta 
caretta/)
piping plover <http://www.fws.gov/northeast/pipingplover/> (/Charadrius 
melodus/)
seabeach amaranth <http://www.fws.gov/nc-es/plant/seabamaranth.html> 
(/Amaranthus pumilis/)

*Federal species of concern*^*(1)
* diamondback terrapin 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamondback_terrapin> (/Maclemys t. terrapin/)
Roland's sea-blite (/Suaeda rolandii/) ...........................

In addition, there are pages about the Jamaica Bay's problems from the 
government. They are well informed and have been documenting them over a 
long time.

"Jamaica Bay has been substantially altered by extensive dredging, 
filling, and development in and around the bay. ..... the bay receives 
substantial pollution from a variety of point and nonpoint sources; 
these include municipal waste water discharge from three plants (320 
million gallons per day), combined sewer overflows, untreated storm 
water runoff from the roads and developed areas around the bay 
(including the runways at John F. Kennedy Airport which are contaminated 
with de-icing chemicals), leaching of contaminants from three large 
closed landfills (Edgemere, Fountain Avenue, and Pennsylvania Avenue 
landfills), atmospheric pollution, especially soot and toxic chemicals 
from transportation, and windblown trash; there is the added potential 
risk of spills due to substantial water transportation of oil and 
chemical products in the bay. Nutrient and high oxygen-demanding organic 
matter inputs result in phytoplankton blooms, low levels of light 
transmission, and low bottom dissolved oxygen concentrations. Present 
and historic inputs of toxics, including hydrocarbons (especially 
polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons such as napthalene) and heavy metals, 
have resulted in contaminated sediments ......"

 From this DEP Jamaica Bay Proposal 
<http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/news/jb_draft_plan.shtml>online.

"These various habitats support 91 fish species, 325 species of birds 
and many reptile, amphibian and small mammal species. The Bay is a 
critical stop for birds along the Eastern Flyway migration route and has 
become an internationally renowned birding destination. Portions of the 
Bay, most notably the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, have been designated 
as Significant Coastal Fish and Wildlife Habitats by the federal and 
state governments."

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