{"id":62781,"date":"2025-10-24T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?p=62781"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:30:54","slug":"news-2025-10-24-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployed-on-the-manasquan-inlet-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/news-2025-10-24-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployed-on-the-manasquan-inlet-reef\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Commercial Fishing Boat Deployed on the Manasquan Inlet Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/c-ann-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployment-in-rough-blue-sea-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-on-manasquan-inlet-reef-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/c-ann-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployment-in-rough-blue-sea-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-on-manasquan-inlet-reef-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62815\" style=\"width:480px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/c-ann-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployment-in-rough-blue-sea-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-on-manasquan-inlet-reef-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/c-ann-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployment-in-rough-blue-sea-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-on-manasquan-inlet-reef-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/c-ann-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployment-in-rough-blue-sea-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-on-manasquan-inlet-reef-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/c-ann-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployment-in-rough-blue-sea-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-on-manasquan-inlet-reef-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/c-ann-ex-commercial-fishing-boat-deployment-in-rough-blue-sea-water-under-partly-cloudy-blue-sky-on-manasquan-inlet-reef.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, NJDEP Fish &amp; Wildlife&#8217;s Artificial Reef Program staff deployed a new addition to the Manasquan Inlet Reef site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The C. ANN, a 55-foot former steel commercial fishing boat was prepared and sunk off the coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This deployment was made possible by donations from the Greater Point Pleasant Charter Boat Association, Bill Cleary of Brielle, NJ and Depth Charge Marine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This deployment is the ninth deployment on the relatively new reef, and will provide habitat for over 150 species of marine organisms including black sea bass, tautog, summer flounder, lobsters, crabs and mussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coordinates for this deployment are 40\u00b004&#8217;23.4&#8243;N and 73\u00b058&#8217;51.8&#8243;W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month, NJDEP Fish &amp; Wildlife&#8217;s Artificial Reef Program staff deployed a new addition to the Manasquan Inlet Reef site. The C. ANN, a 55-foot former steel commercial fishing boat was prepared and sunk off the coast. This deployment was made possible by donations from the Greater Point Pleasant Charter Boat Association, Bill Cleary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":62814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fishing","category-saltwater-recreational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62816,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62781\/revisions\/62816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}