New Jersey Scuba Diving

Regulatory Sources

National Marine Fisheries ServiceNational Marine Fisheries Service ( NMFS )
NE Region
1 Blackburn Pl.
Gloucester MA 01930-2298

possession limits: 508-281-9260
federal permit applications: 508-281-9370
local NMFS law enforcement: 609-390-8303 or 908-528-3315
Tuna Quota updates: 301-713-1279

njdep
njdfgw		NJ Department of Environmental Protection
Division of Fish, Game & Wildlife
CN 400
Trenton NJ 08625-0400

information: 609-292-2965
marine fisheries: 609-292-2083
shellfisheries: 609-984-5546
law enforcement: 609-292-9430
Mid Atlantic Fisheries Management CouncilAtlantic States Marine Fisheries Council ( ASMFC )
Mid Atlantic Fisheries Management Council

For additional Health Advisory information, contact:

NJ Department of Environmental Protection

Here are all the New Jersey Marine Digests in pdf, back through 2000. The state's website is just so painful and slow to find anything on:

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Aids to Navigation

Shipping Lanes & Lighthouses

  1. Ambrose Buoy
  2. Absecon Lighthouse
  3. Barnegat Lighthouse
  4. Block Island Lighthouse
  5. Cape May Lighthouse
  6. Cape Henlopen Buoy
  7. Coney Island Lighthouse
  8. East Point Lighthouse
  9. Fire Island Lighthouse
  10. Fort Wadsworth Lighthouse
  11. Great Beds Lighthouse
  12. Cape Henlopen Lighthouse
  13. Hereford Inlet Lighthouse
  14. Horton's Point Lighthouse
  15. Little Red Lighthouse
  16. Miah Maull Shoal Lighthouse
  17. Montauk Lighthouse
  18. Romer Shoal Lighthouse
  19. Sandy Hook Lighthouse
  20. Sea Girt Lighthouse
  21. Shinnecock Lighthouse
  22. Twin Lights Lighthouse

The US Coast Guard maintains a number of aids to navigation to assist vessels entering and leaving ports, both great ports like New York and Philadelphia, and minor ports like Shark River and Montauk. At sea, these aids take the form of buoys that mark out channels and shipping lanes. The chart about also marks major ocean-side lighthouses and a few others. All of these are still extant and may be visited except Shinnecock, which was torn down.

Shipping lanes are like divided highways at sea. Inbound and outbound lanes are separated by a wide "Separation Zone, " which may or may not be depicted on the charts in this website, depending on the scale. Ships "drive on the right" just like cars in civilized countries. At the inbound end where all the lanes converge into the harbor channel, things get messy, and I didn't try to depict it. Likewise, the outer ends of the lanes are not exact either.

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