Delaware #09 Artificial Reef

Depth: 50-60 ft

rock reef
A hopper barge full of rock

All manner of concrete, steel, and stone rubble from dredging, demolition projects, and other construction is used as artificial reef materials. This material is generally available at very low cost or free from construction companies who are more than happy to get rid of it. Transportation costs determine where this material is used by the Reef Program.


Black Sea Bass
Black Sea Bass

A fish is defined as a limbless aquatic vertebrate animal with fins and internal gills. There are three living classes of fish:

  • Primitive jawless fishes - class Agnatha
  • Cartilaginous fishes - class Chondrichthyes
  • Bony fishes - class Osteichthyes

These groups, although quite different from one another anatomically, have certain common features related to their common evolutionary origins or to their aquatic way of life. Fish were the earliest vertebrates, and presumably evolved from a group of aquatic lower chordates; the terrestrial vertebrates evolved from fishes.

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