It's a muggy, humid morning in Bath, North Carolina in late May. A barge is out in the middle of the Pamlico River near Bath Creek, carrying 100 concrete cubes that will make up a new artificial reef.

Monmouth County will use concrete rubble from the old Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge to expand the Sandy Hook Reef. The New Jersey Artificial Reef network creates habitats for fish to support state ...

In a boost for both recreational fishing and the environment, new UNSW research shows that artificial reefs can increase fish abundance in estuaries with little natural reef. Researchers installed six ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Two years ago, Joe Kistel led the charge to deliberately sink two ships about 28 miles off Jacksonville coast. The goal was to create artificial reefs. Last month, he and a ...

McCulley Marine Services deployed artificial reefs from Brevard to Miami-Dade counties for over two decades, but now there's no one left to do that work since the Fort Pierce business closed in 2023.

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources recently held a hearing on the Marine Fisheries Habitat Protection Act, which ...

Construction of a new artificial reef off the coast of a southwest Louisiana city has been completed. The reef, about 10 miles southwest of Holly Beach, was built in an area where an oil platform was ...

We conducted a before-after-control-impact (BACI) experiment to evaluate the effects of deploying small-scale artificial patch reefs on fish assemblages in a temperate bay (Port Phillip Bay) in ...

A 65-foot trawler and experimental concrete structures are among the most recent additions to South Carolina’s artificial reef system. At the C.J. Davidson Jr. Reef (PA-16) off the coast of Georgetown ...

The weekend weather conditions have finally lined up calm enough to sink two long-anticipated artificial reefs. Saturday and Sunday, two large vessels will be sunk as artificial reefs off the ...

TEXAS (KXAN) — The construction of the world’s largest artificial reef has been delayed again. The SS United States was scheduled for transport from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Mobile, Alabama over ...

Humanmade reefs can be used in conjunction with the restoration or protection of natural habitat to increase fish abundance in estuaries, researchers have found. In a boost for both recreational ...