Two Vessels Sunk, Eight More Slated for Deployment on New Jersey’s Artificial Reefs

by Hugh Carberry, Reef Program Coordinator
Bureau of Marine Fisheries
June 23, 2016
After more than a five year hiatus, the Artificial Reef Program is back!

On June 1, the Sport Fish Restoration Program restored $159,000 to the program. This equates to $119,250 Federal and $39,750 State match for this year. The majority of this money will be utilized to pay salaries and to perform mandatory archeological surveys on two new reef sites the program is proposing off Manasquan Inlet and in Delaware Bay… Read the full story here