In approving an ordinance regulating the pickup and disembarking of passengers from recreational watercraft, the Ship Bottom Borough Council earlier this month strengthened a six decades-old measure that has prohibited such things from occurring in certain bayfront areas owned and maintained by the town.

At the council meeting Aug. 24, Mayor William Huelsenbeck said a variation of Ordinance 2021-15 was first approved in 1959 or 1960 and forbade certain things within the vicinity of the bay…