Page 16 Talk Of The Town ? From Page 14 water aspect: the sea, the harbor, commercial fishing and seafood. The event has turned into a huge street fair. All the city needs is a sunny day. If heaven forbid it should rain Saturday, the festival gets moved to Sunday. Cape May has a beautiful harbor but a few years ago it was becoming Davy Jones locker for sunken and abandoned boats. One boat burned to the water line after its owners jumped ship on a
Thursday, June 13, 2013 November morning in 2007. New Jersey Audubon’s Nature Center of Cape May is the focal point of Harbor Fest. Executive Director Gretchen Whitman said that, during the winter of 2007-2008, abandoned boats were ruining Cape May’s harbor. A group of businesses surrounding the harbor formed, the “Harbor Partners” including the Nature Center, South Jersey Marina and Lucky Bones Restaurant. They worked with representatives of the city and Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cape May to find a way to remove the abandoned boats, which were hauled away by Sea-Tow. The group established an event to bring awareness of the harbor and to pay for removal of derelict boats. The “partners” picked up the concept of Cape May’s defunct “Sea and Sky Festival.” “We said Cape May really needs to have a festival that focuses on our maritime heritage and the importance of the sea-
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food industry here,” said Whitman. As part of the event, cooking demonstrations will be held in the Nature Center’s classrooms highlighting underutilized species, fish that are commonly caught in the area but not found on many dinner tables. “Local people don’t eat a lot of squid even though squid is one of the main catches here,” said Whitman. Scup, also known a porgy, was once overfished but the population has now rebounded and it will find itself in the frying pan at Harbor Fest. Under a big tent at the Nature Center, children can pick up a horseshoe crab or starfish. There are also activities on the water such as the “Paddle for a Purpose” kayak and canoe regatta, a tour of the harbor which raises money to provide scholarships for Coast Guard children to attend summer camp at the Nature Center for free. Even inexperienced kayakers are invited to
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