New Jersey
Of Fish and Flexibility
June 12,
2009
www.nytimes.com
Senator Charles Schumer has introduced a bill
called The Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act. Flexibility, in
this case, means bending to the will of fishermen who want to keep vacuuming up
depleted fish populations before they have a chance to recover.
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full article
here.
N.Y. Harbor rocks to adorn Shore reefs
April 11, 2009
www.app.com
Rocks blasted out of the bottom of New York Harbor are headed south, to
New Jersey's artificial fishing reefs where hopper barges will begin
dropping chunks of sandstone, shale and granite around April 21,
according to the state Division of Fish and Wildlife.
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here.
State Halts Subway Car Deployments On Offshore Reefs
February 6, 2009
www.pressofatlanticcity.com
New York City subways cars placed on the state?s artificial fishing
reef off this resort back in April are already showing ?unusual damage?
and the program has been suspended.
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here.
Reef bill passes Senate, Hooked on fishing not drugs gets 2nd reading!
Sally Growler
October 24, 2008
Stripers Online
A3379 Assembly: Establishes, in the Division of Fish and Wildlife in
DEP, a program to encourage school children to avoid drug use and
appropriates $200,000 therefor from Drug Enforcement and Demand
Reduction Fund. Reported approved and out of assembly for second
reading.
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here.
500 Reef Balls Slated for Deployment on the Great Egg and Little Egg Reefs
October 21, 2008
http://www.outdoorcentral.com
Five hundred reef balls have been constructed at Southern State
Correctional Facility at Delmont and are ready for deployment during
early November at the Great Egg and Little Egg Reefs. The Great Egg
Reef is located eight nautical miles southeast of Absecon Inlet and the
Little Egg Reef is located five nautical miles east of Little Egg
Inlet. Each reef site will receive 250 reef balls. The reef balls will
soon be homes for more than 150 species of fish and other marine life
as part of the Artificial Reef Program.
Read the full article
here.
New Jersey NGO
New Jersey Council of Dive Clubs
Contact: Glenn Arthur, Chairperson
Email: njcdcvc@juno.com
Artificial Reef Program Web Sites
www.state.nj.us/dep/fgw/artreef.htm