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Ada Adelia

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Ada Adelia reef
Type:
artificial reef, trawler, USA
Built:
1870s ?
Specs:
( 65 x 20 ft )
Sponsor:
Adelia Inc. & Andy Applegate
Sunk:
Friday Oct 11, 1991 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:
39°15.500' -74°13.880'
Depth:
85 ft

This partially intact wood hull from the 1800s is probably the oldest vessel sunk in the New Jersey Reef Program and one of the only wooden ones as well. It has been described as a "Civil War stone barge" that was later adapted to fishing and clam dredging. The construction was massive - a double course of 2" oak planks on the hull, with 8"x16" deck beams. For reefing, the deck was covered with a layer of concrete ballast. Despite all this, within a year the vessel broke up completely on the bottom. This and other experiences with wooden vessels eventually led the Reef Program to proscribe wood as reef material.

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Porgy (Scup)

Scup (Porgy)

Stentotomus chrysops

Profile by Stacey Reap

Range:
Scup have been found along the Atlantic coast from the Bay of Fundy and Sable Island Bank, Canada, to as far south as Florida; however, the greatest concentrations can be found from Massachusetts to North Carolina. Depending upon the season, they can be found from coastal waters and estuaries out to depths of approximately 650 ft. along the outer continental shelf. A separate population of scup referred to as the "southern porgy" or S. aculeatus, is referenced in several South Atlantic Bight studies; however, there is no official differentiation made between the two populations by the American Fisheries Society.

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