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Article: Hudson 'expedition' nets some surprises
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- October 11, 2009
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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
10-11-2009
Hudson 'expedition' nets some surprises
Date: 10-11-2009, Sunday
Section: LOCAL
In the 400 years since Henry Hudson "discovered" the 315-mile river that now bears his name, there's been a lot more to discover between its rocky banks.
But we're not talking about rusted cars, raw sewage or toxic chemicals.
On Saturday morning, Christopher Letts of the Hudson River Foundation and Tom Lake, an estuary naturalist from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation, dragged a seine a large commercial fishing net across the sandy banks of the Englewood Boat Basin to teach a lesson on conservation and demonstrate that there's more to the river than the ...