Next step in the battle for our reefs...

[njdiver]

General Assembly Leadership

Assemblywoman Sheila Y. Oliver (D) (Assembly Speaker)
DISTRICT OFFICE ADDRESS:

15-33 Halsted Street
Suite 202
East Orange, NJ 07018

PHONE NUMBER: (973) 395-1166
FAX NUMBER: (973) 395-1724
EMAIL: AswOliver@njleg.org


Assemblyman Joseph Cryan (D) (Majority Leader)
DISTRICT OFFICE ADDRESS:

985 Stuyvesant Ave.
Union, NJ 07083

PHONE NUMBER: (908) 624-0880
FAX NUMBER: (908) 624-0587
EMAIL: AsmCryan@njleg.org


Assemblyman Jerry Green (D) (Speaker Pro Tempore)
DISTRICT OFFICE ADDRESS:

17 Watchung Ave.
Plainfield, NJ 07060

PHONE NUMBER: (908) 561-5757
FAX NUMBER: (908) 561-5547
EMAIL: AsmGreen@njleg.org


Assemblywoman Joan M. Quigley (D) (Majority Conference Leader)
DISTRICT OFFICE ADDRESS:

235 Ninth Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302

PHONE NUMBER: (201) 217-4614
FAX NUMBER: (201) 217-4617
EMAIL: AswQuigley@njleg.org


Call them, write them, fax them, email them. Ask them to have the bill heard in committee! Let them know you want the "Pots Off the Reefs"!

[Wreckfish]

If this does pass doesn't it only pertain to reefs with in NJ 3 mile border? 

[IrishAyes]

The other states that did this had the federal waters included also. Seems the feds go along with the states on this. 

[njdiver]

If this does pass doesn't it only pertain to reefs with in NJ 3 mile border? 

Yes.

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  2.    The department shall apply, within three months from the date of enactment of this act, to the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council to designate all artificial reefs constructed under the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Artificial Reef Program within federal waters as Special Management Zones pursuant to section 648.146 of title 50, Code of Federal Regulations.

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