New York City & Approaches, NY
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Tips and Tricks for Targeting Trophy Tautog

10/8/2019 by US Harbors

• Fishing

By New England Boating. If you wanted to create the perfect blackfish habitat, you’d start with a mussel-encrusted rock bottom, pepper it with a generous number of wrecks and large boulders then harden some of the shoreline with jetties, sea walls, docks and bulkheads. Next, add an abundance of crabs,… SEE MORE

America's Great Loop: "The Last Great Adventure."

9/16/2019 by US Harbors

• Boating
• Coastal News
• Travel

The Great Loop has been called “the last great adventure in North America”, and it’s gaining in popularity as hundreds of boats follow the 6,000-mile continuous waterway route every year. The Great Loop takes boaters up the Atlantic seaboard, through historic canals, across the Great Lakes, down the inland rivers… SEE MORE

Skippers Reveal the Challenges of Racing on the Hudson River

6/24/2019 by US Harbors

• Coastal News

By Dave Reed. Phil Robertson, the animated New Zealand skipper of SailGP's China Team, shares his feelings about racing on the Hudson River, which flows through the heart of New York City. Barely a 1.5-miles wide, it's the smallest, most confined racecourse of the new SailGP series, with the New… SEE MORE

• regatta
• sailing

Cleaning New York Harbor with One Billion Oysters

3/24/2019 by US Harbors

• Nature

By Jackie Wattles The New York Harbor for years has been polluted and depleted of marine life. But one nonprofit is working to clean the murky water and revive its long-lost ecosystem — one oyster at a time. The Billion Oyster Project has worked since 2014 to rebuild oyster reefs… SEE MORE

• oyster shell recycling
• oysters
• pollution