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Maryland fishermen and scuba divers may soon have a new destination just 30 miles off Ocean City as the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife prepares to turn a 563-foot Navy destroyer into a fish reef.
The decommissioned warship, the former USS Arthur W. Radford, is now at
the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where it is being cleaned and prepared for
scuttling this fall. The $800,000 cost of preparation, towing and
sinking is being shared by New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, according
to the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife. Read the complete story from The Baltimore Sun.
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MELISSA WOOD, NATIONAL FISHERMEN: Meting out the meager
May 22, 2012 - Listening to the New England Council's Groundfish Advisory Panel talk about how that industry is going to pay for monitoring costs is kind of like trying to figure out how to pay your bills when you've just lost your job. Though monitoring is important keeping costs down is critical. As Panel Member Gary Libby pointed out, "If we had 100 percent monitoring we probably wouldn't have an industry."
