Clean Ocean Advocate, February 2007

The monthly Clean Ocean Advocate newsletter informs citizens about critical ocean pollution issues, important meeting dates, proposed legislation, special events, and other notes of interest. Articles in this issue include: A Look Back At 2006 For The Ocean!; Coastal Water Quality: Speak-Up on Oyster Creek's Environmental Impacts; NJ Proposes Dimilin Pesticide to Control Gypsy Moths; Shark River Dredging Plan - Round Two; Clean Ocean Zone: MMS Meeting on Offshore Renewable Energy; Flotsam and Jetsam: Taking a Look at NJ's Coastal Critters; Events: Polar Plunge: A Bear of a Time!; Operation Dough-Nation; Coastal Creature Feature.Clean Ocean Action (COA) is a broad-based coalition of over 150 business, community, conservation, environmental, fishing, boating, diving, student, surfing, women's, and service groups. These "Ocean Wavemakers" work to clean up and protect the waters of the New York Bight (the area of water from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk Point, New York, and out to the edge of the outer continental shelf). The groups came together in 1984 to investigate sources, effects, and solutions of ocean pollution