- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1866, Eastport ME USA
- 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
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Trawlers (1/6)
There are three basic types of commercial fishing vessels found in the Mid-Atlantic region: trawlers, seiners/gill-netters, and long-liners. A trawler or "dragger" operates by towing its fishing gear across the bottom. Weighted nets take bottom fishes, while cage-like steel dredges take clams and scallops. A seiner uses a floating net to encircle schools of surface-swimming fishes such as herring and tuna. A long-liner sets out miles of buoyed line with baited hooks to catch sharks, tuna, and swordfish. One could also add lobster boats and charter fishing or "head" boats to this list. And of course, dive boats.
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1975, Master Marine, Bayou La Bâtre AL USA
- Specs:
- ( 80 ft ) 147 gross tons
- Sunk:
- Friday July 12, 2002 - Moriches Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°43.512' -72°46.598'
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler
- Built:
- 1956, Tampa Marine, Tampa FL USA
- Specs:
- ( 65 ft ) 79 GT
- Sponsor:
- Grady family, Greater Point Pleasant Charter Boat Association, Ocean Reef Foundation of New Jersey
- Sunk:
- Wednesday Sept 21, 2016 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 40°02.900' -73°59.000'
- Depth:
- 80 ft
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1947, Bath Iron Works, Bath Maine USA
- Specs:
- ( 144x27 ft ) 393 tons
- Sunk:
- Wednesday April 17, 2002 - Moriches Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°43.402' -72°46.659
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler
- Built:
- see below, 1977, previously Margaret Ann II, Capt Seaweed
- Specs:
- ( 62x19 ft )
- Sunk:
- Oct 2025 - Manasquan Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 40.073167 -73.981057
- Depth:
- 75 ft
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler, USA
- Built:
- 1979, Hudson Shipbuilders, Pascagoula MS
- Specs:
- ( 76 ft )
- Sunk:
- Friday November 6, 1998 - Moriches Artificial Reef
- Depth:
- GPS:
- 40°43.506' -72°46.397'
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler
- Specs:
- ( 70 ft )
- Sponsor:
- Axel Carlson Jr.
- Sunk:
- June 1973 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- 40°06.805' -73°57.176'
- Depth:
- 70 ft
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- Type:
- artificial reef, trawler
- Built:
- 1979, Gulf Coast Marine Builders, Bayou La Batre AL, as Cowboy
- Specs:
- ( 90 ft ) 159 tons
- Sunk:
- April 2024 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
- GPS:
- NJDEP Private Fishing Hole
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Astroscopus guttatus
Size
to 22" and 20 lbs.
Description:
Don't expect to see these fishes very often - they live buried in the sand, with just their eyes protruding. The eyes are directly atop the flat head, and the mouth is almost vertical. Of course, they are ambush predators. If you flush one from its hiding place, it will clumsily swim a short distance, and then rebury itself in just seconds. Stargazers are capable of producing weak electric currents from organs located behind the eyes. I doubt that it is enough to be dangerous to a diver, although it might be startling! Midshipmen are similar but smaller, with a continuous dorsal fin and luminescent spots instead of electrical organs.
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