November 28, 2017 — ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey — The state’s first artificial reef in the Delaware Bay will be centrally located for recreational fishermen from Fortescue to Cape May.
“Fishermen had been requesting one for quite some time,” said Peter Clarke, fisheries biologist and artificial reef coordinator for the Department of Environmental Protection. “We were finally able to do it.”
Construction is due to start in early December, he said.
Party boat captain Mike Rothman, of the 65-foot Bonanza II in Fortescue, said the reef will be beneficial for his business and for the bay’s recreational fishery.
“This give us more of an option,” said Rothman, who operates out of the Fortescue State Marina and is a Downe Township committeeman.