$10 Million Marine Industrial Complex Eyed hv OinrlfK MathU ■ V

by Charles Mathis

COLD SPRING - The hoped for agreement from a major seafood processor to relocate here could help pave the way for the start, within six months, of a $10 million seafood-oriented industrial

park here.

If Sea Harvest Industrial Park does get off the ground on a 10-acre site near the Middle Thorofare toll bridge between Wildwood Crest and Cape May. it would provide commercial fishermen with a single location to satisfy all their working needs - from selling a day s catch to repairing an engine. According to manager Bob Myers, the SHIP master plan accommodates lour food processors —' and negotiations are underway internationally. THE LAND. VALUED AT $5.5 million, is owned by Sea Harvest Inc. The park would provide space for the largest fin-fish

operating plant in New Jersey

•Historically,•• Myers comments, 'Cape May (Cold Spring). Harbor has tended to emphasize shell fishing - mostly

clams and scallops.

•'However, there are a number of other under-utilized or less popular fin-fish out there that would be a good source of protein for us and other countries as well. "And we would like to see Sea Harvest become the center of that activity for the

state."

LAST YEAR THE half-by-two and one-half-mile harbor between Cape May/Lower Township and the Atlantic Ocean was port for a $32 million fish harvest. Only New Bedford. Mass, ex ceeded this figure. Myers predicted that within three years of opening day, the park could add approximately 630 year-round jobs, or $17 (Page 22 Please)

Twp. Likes Sea Park Idea

By Lissy FriU MIDDLE THOROFARE - Lower Township officials are enthusiastic over the seafood industrial park project being advanced for a 10-acre site just west of this channel on the Intracoastal Waterway across from the Two Mile Beach section of Lower Township. During the Dec. 22 Township Committee meeting. Daniel Cohen. Executive officer of Sea Harvest Inc. introduced the plan he and his company are developing under thcsacronym SHIP . for Sea Harvest Industrial Park. THE TOWNSHIP GOVERNING body offered Mr. Cohen immediate and unanimous support. They agreed to establish a liaison and assured him of serious cooperation in the future. He explained that SHIP is a private sector, comprehensive and systematic

approach to the needs of the rapidly expanding commercial fishing industry. In its first phase, the Industrial complex will offer a s ho reside area for fish processing plants, cold storage and vessel support services. Adequate supplies of potable and process water, wafcte treatment and electrical facilities are available to accommodate major seafood processing firms. MR. COHEN ALSO STATED that a tax abatement plan can be made available as an incentive to the new industries to locate in the complex. The tax deferral would essentially put off payment of local real estate v taxes on new industrial development for the first five years of operation. The SHIP project property is already zoned for marine industrial use. Sea Harvest is said to have received all major (Page 22 Please)

GYPSY MOTH EGGS are laid bi a mass of SM or more which look like miniature oyster shells. They are often covered with buff-colored hairs from the moth's body. One photo shows the egg masses on a tree trunk; the other on an upside down redwood bench (also

seen are examples of the later, pupae stage of the life cycle).

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WO VIEWS of lhr s,, «* wh(,r ' multi-million dollar Sea Harvest Ind&slrial Park is envisioned, flu* upper photo shows the channel behind the fish market d«vks on Oct-.in Drive rite lower picture is the mouth of the channel where it meets.MiddliThoroliire this photo taken from the loll bridge. /

Separation Plan Eyed for Trash

SWAINTON — A solid waste separation program which will be presented to area municipalities was previewed by the county Municipal Utilities Authot ity at its most recent meeting here. "Our goal is to recover 25 per cent of the waste, including paper, glass and metals, explained Lou Joyce of Pandullo Quirk Associates, consulting engineers for the

MUA.

"The benefits of source separation are clear and worthwhile - to conserve energy, extend landfill disposal capacity and to recycle material before it is lost in the

waste stream. There are markets where these materials can be sold." Joyce said •Municipal waste disposal Oosts can be reduced from the revenue derived frorr selling these materials." As part of the county’s solid waste management plan, the MUA will seek citizen participation by first presenting th< program to municipal officials and in terested groups, "We must have feedback and citizen input to make this program work.' John Vinci. MUA chairman, stressed

Environmental Unit Pushes Search & Destroy Mission

LOWER TOWNSHIP - The local En vironmental Commission has launched a campaign to recruit property owners and other citizens in the fight against a common. very destructive enemy - ■ Porthetriadispar. More commonly known as the gypsy moth, Porthetrla diapar was responsible for the destruction of hundreds of acres of trees last spring in Cape May County through defoliation. Thousands of trees were killed. Stronger specimens survived to grow a second, smaller leaf covering, but if the same survivors are struck again next spring, thousands upon thousands of trees in forest and front yards will be killed. "YOU KNOW. THE GYPSY MOTH season will be with us in another five to six months." warned Robert Imler. chairman of the local Environmental Commission "And what we re trying to do is make the public aware and keep the public aware that there is a gypsy moth problem/' One would have to have a very short memory not to realize Mr. Imler s un derstatement

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More than 19,000 acres of the Jersey Cape were defoliated by last spring and summer s attacking gypsy moth ceter pillars-the late larval state of Rorthetrla dispar's life cycle and the only time the insect is destructive. DENNIS TOWNSHIP W AS HARDEST hit with more than 8,700 acres of trees eaten up. In Middle, almost 6.500 acres were hit; just under 1.200 acres in Lower, over 1,000 in Upper, and over 7H0 acres defoliated in Woodtyne. Statewide, more than 410,000 acres were invaded by the gypsy caterpillar, more than twice the devastation of the previous year and well over the previous record high invasion ol some 258,000 acres in 1973. What made matters worse in Ixmor Township was the head start the voracious caterpillars got due to indecision by the governing body on how most safely to attack the critters And even the attack itself, once it was finally launched, had its reprecussions — the private contractor hired by the township on an emergency basis to spray the caterpillars, fined by the

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