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An oil spill hit bay beaches just as horseshoe crab spawning was beginning. DRN staff investigate oiled debris clean up along Kitts Hummock Beach in Delaware Bay near Ted Harvey Wildlife area
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Two clean up crew members collecting oiled debris, tarballs, and vegetation along Kitts Hummock Beach |
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| A sticky oiled tarball on marsh reeds |
Containment and sorbent booms along the mouth of Raccoon Creek during the Athos I catastrophe, November 2004 |
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Containment boom installed to attempt to keep oil away from sensitive bay beach during April 2006 oil spill |
A heavily oiled Delaware River shoreline during the Athos I spill |
Immature molt of a horseshoe crab and a sticky black tarball
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More oiled tarballs on vegetation at a beach that was deemed clean - each tide brings in more oil
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Contaminated shoreline and sediments along Riverwinds beach
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Horseshoe crabs who arrive to spawn not only contend with the oil spill but also shoreline armoring like this at Port Mahon where their spawning habitat has been replaced with rip rap to protect Port Mahon road
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Oiled "pom-poms" used to soak up oil along the shoreline
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Horseshoe crabs find uncontaminated habitat to spawn during the April 06 spill
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