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Layer: Shellfish Leases (ID: 39)

Name: Shellfish Leases

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Description: This data layer provides the location of all shellfish leases in the Atlantic Coast and Delaware Bay regions of New Jersey. These leases are used exclusively for the planting and cultivating of shellfish by the lessee. Leases are granted by the New Jersey Shellfisheries Council, upon approval from the Commissioner of the NJDEP. These data show the location and areas of leases within Atlantic Coastal bays and estuaries and in the Delaware Bay region of New Jersey. These data may change monthly depending on leasing transactions, i.e. Council actions to approved pending leases, leases vacated due to non-payment or lessee action. These data were created to facilitate the leasing program within the Atlantic Coast and Delaware Bay regions of New Jersey. These data are regularly updated on monthly basis.Authority of the NJ Shellfisheries Council is to Grant Leases is by Title 50, NJSA 50:1-24 and codified in the Leasing of Atlantic Coast Bottom for Aquaculture regulations at NJAC 7:25-24. This data is typically updated monthly due to new and vacated leases. Atlantic Coast Leases are measured in Acres or Linear Feet (length of bank out to 16 ft depth at mean low water). Linear Feet applies to leases in the Mullica River, Motts Creek and tributaries. This measurement was established on May 12, 1917 by the Board of Shell Fisheries. There were a few leases, however, near the mouth of Nacote Creek in the Mullica River that are in acres.Relay Leases - all special hard clam relay leases within Atlantic Coastal bays and estuaries of New Jersey are used exclusively for the planting of hard clams harvested from marginally polluted waters “Restricted”, under the DEP shellfish resource recovery program, for the purpose of utilizing these hard clam resources by cleansing them to health standards for marketing and human consumption as codified under NJAC 7:25-15 and NJAC 7:12-9. Leases are granted by the New Jersey Shellfisheries Council, upon approval from the Commissioner of the NJDEP. This authority of the Council is to grant leases is by Title 50, NJSA 50:1-24 and codified in the Leasing of Atlantic Coast Bottom for Aquaculture regulations at NJAC 7:25-24. These data are typically updated monthly due to new and vacated leases when the program is active. There are three designated special relay lease areas, Tuckerton, Little Egg Harbor Bay; Laurel Harbor, Barnegat Bay and Great Bay, Great Bay. These data were created to facilitate and manage the hard clam relay program within the Atlantic Coast region of New Jersey.

Copyright Text: NJDEP, Division of Fish and Wildlife (DFW), Office of Fish and Wildlife Information Systems.

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