Carter's Creek

dis-masted, cleaned, and ready for sinking

Type:: artificial reef, trawler, purse seiner
Built:: 1948, RTC Shipbuilding, Camden NJ, USA, as Absecon
Specs:: ( 140x25 ft ) 198 gross tons
Sunk:: Wednesday May 19, 2021 - Manasquan Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°05.010' -73°59.632'
Depth:: 75 ft

*F/V Carter’s Creek* unloads Atlantic menhaden at Reedville, Va., for both bait and reduction.

The Carter’s Creek was originally the Absecon and fished in the reduction fishery during the 1950s and 1960s. In about 1978 she was converted to a clam dredger for the surf clam and ocean quohog fishery in the mid-Atlantic, and also fished as a trawler for horseshoe crabs. She was retrofitted again in 2005 to purse seine menhaden for bait.

Old Bunker Boat Coming To Manasquan Reef

May 2021
The Fisherman
by Emma

The Greater Point Pleasant Charter Boat Association – sponsors of Tuna Mania – have collaborated with the Ann E. Clark Foundation to deploy the boat, F/A Carters Creek on the Manasquan Inlet Reef. The 140-foot former commercial menhaden boat is 35 feet wide and 36 feet high and will provide a great profile outside of Manasquan Inlet and is expected to be deployed in mid-May.

According to Greater Point Pleasant Charter Boat Association president Ron Braen, the total cost to deploy the vessel is $140,000.00, with the association and the Ann E. Clark Foundation each covering half of the project expense.

“This will be our third deployment on the Manasquan Inlet Reef,” Braen said, noting this will also be the 31st deployment to New Jersey’s Artificial Reef Program for the Greater Point Pleasant Charter Boat Association. “The deployments are the results of our organizations fishing Tournaments, Mako Mania and now our latest tournament Tuna Mania to be held from June 10th to June 13th,” Braen added. For more information go to gppcba.com.