The New Jersey Bureau of Marine Water Monitoring is involved in many aspects of the State's coastal water quality. Its roles include monitoring for compliance with the National Shellfish Sanitation Program, coordination of coastal bathing beach monitoring, removal of trash from coastal beaches, evaluation of the ecological health of the coastal waters, and monitoring to identify and track pollution sources impacting the State's coastal waters.

New Jersey has a very promising trend with regard to coastal water quality as reflected in the percent of its coastal waters from which shellfish can be harvested. With the most recent changes to the State's regulations on January 3, 2011 almost 90 percent of New Jersey's coastal waters are harvestable for shellfish.

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