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  Category: Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control


Online registration now open to volunteers for 31st annual Delaware Coastal Cleanup

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Date Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2018

Online volunteer registration is now open for the 31st annual Delaware Coastal Cleanup, to be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 15, along Delaware’s s 97-mile eastern coastline and parts of the State’s river and ocean shorelines and wetland and watershed areas.



Delaware Tidal Finfish Advisory Council to meet July 24 in Dover

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Fish and Wildlife | Date Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Delaware’s Advisory Council on Tidal Finfisheries will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, in the Dover Public Library, Room B, 35 East Loockerman Street, Dover, DE 19901.



DNREC Division of Climate, Coastal & Energy announces St. Jones Reserve Visitor Center closed until fall for renovations

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Climate, Coastal and Energy | Date Posted: Friday, July 13, 2018

DNREC’s Division of Climate, Coastal & Energy announced today that the visitor center at the St. Jones Reserve in Dover is temporarily closed for updating of the reserve’s exhibit hall. Construction is slated to be completed in early fall. During construction, restrooms will be open during normal office hours, and trails and grounds remain open to the public every day from dawn until dusk.

The St. Jones Reserve is the southern component of the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve. DNERR is a partnership between the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. DNERR is administered through the Delaware Coastal Programs Section of DNREC’s Division of Climate, Coastal & Energy.

For more information, please call the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve at 302-739-6377.

Vol. 48, No. 188

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Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police Blotter: July 2-8

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Fish and Wildlife | Date Posted: Friday, July 13, 2018

DNREC Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police officers made 3,940 contacts with anglers, boaters, and the general public between July 2-8, issuing 83 citations.



DNREC Division of Fish & Wildlife’s Artificial Reef Program benefits from rock removed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during deepening of Delaware River’s navigation channel

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Fish and Wildlife | Date Posted: Monday, July 9, 2018

DOVER – When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers struck rock bottom during deepening of the Delaware River navigational channel, the state’s artificial reef program under the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Division of Fish & Wildlife struck a new partnership with the Corps of Engineers for creating new fish habitat. Since last December, DNREC’s Fisheries Section and the Corps have partnered on a beneficial reuse project for converting nearly a million tons of rock removed from the river bottom into enhanced habitat for marine life on two artificial reef sites in the lower Delaware Bay – and at no cost to the state.






  Category: Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control

Online registration now open to volunteers for 31st annual Delaware Coastal Cleanup

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Date Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2018

Online volunteer registration is now open for the 31st annual Delaware Coastal Cleanup, to be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 15, along Delaware’s s 97-mile eastern coastline and parts of the State’s river and ocean shorelines and wetland and watershed areas.



Delaware Tidal Finfish Advisory Council to meet July 24 in Dover

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Fish and Wildlife | Date Posted: Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Delaware’s Advisory Council on Tidal Finfisheries will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday, July 24, in the Dover Public Library, Room B, 35 East Loockerman Street, Dover, DE 19901.



DNREC Division of Climate, Coastal & Energy announces St. Jones Reserve Visitor Center closed until fall for renovations

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Climate, Coastal and Energy | Date Posted: Friday, July 13, 2018

DNREC’s Division of Climate, Coastal & Energy announced today that the visitor center at the St. Jones Reserve in Dover is temporarily closed for updating of the reserve’s exhibit hall. Construction is slated to be completed in early fall. During construction, restrooms will be open during normal office hours, and trails and grounds remain open to the public every day from dawn until dusk.

The St. Jones Reserve is the southern component of the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve. DNERR is a partnership between the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. DNERR is administered through the Delaware Coastal Programs Section of DNREC’s Division of Climate, Coastal & Energy.

For more information, please call the Delaware National Estuarine Research Reserve at 302-739-6377.

Vol. 48, No. 188

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Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police Blotter: July 2-8

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Fish and Wildlife | Date Posted: Friday, July 13, 2018

DNREC Fish & Wildlife Natural Resources Police officers made 3,940 contacts with anglers, boaters, and the general public between July 2-8, issuing 83 citations.



DNREC Division of Fish & Wildlife’s Artificial Reef Program benefits from rock removed by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during deepening of Delaware River’s navigation channel

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control | Division of Fish and Wildlife | Date Posted: Monday, July 9, 2018

DOVER – When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers struck rock bottom during deepening of the Delaware River navigational channel, the state’s artificial reef program under the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control’s Division of Fish & Wildlife struck a new partnership with the Corps of Engineers for creating new fish habitat. Since last December, DNREC’s Fisheries Section and the Corps have partnered on a beneficial reuse project for converting nearly a million tons of rock removed from the river bottom into enhanced habitat for marine life on two artificial reef sites in the lower Delaware Bay – and at no cost to the state.