Herald & Lantern 27 April '83

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Fishing Industry Nets

Commerce Officials

By JOE ZELNIK Spokesmen for Cape May County’s commercial fishing industry told state officials last week that they need more dredging, longterm, low-interest loans, and heightened awareness of the importance of the county's fishing industry. Dutifully lunching on clam chowder at Neil’s Steak & Oyster House in Wildwood, Commerce Commissioner Borden R. Putnam said he was *‘encouraged" and "more optimistic than when I came.’’ He also volunteered that he had enjoyed cold squid jn a salad the night before.

Putnam was accompanied by two aides, Kenneth C. Lefevre, director of the Division of Economic Development, and Joseph R. Ridolfi, of the office of Industrial Development, and guided by Donald M. Kelly, executive director of the Cape May County Industrial and Economic Development Commission. THE GROUP SPENT so much time at Lund's Fisheries and Sea Harvest Industrial Park in Lower Township last Friday that a planned tour of the county’s Airport Industrial Park was reduced to a “drive-by.” The tour started at 10 a.m. and included a pre-

Fishing History

CAPE MAY - A twoyear study into the history of commercial fishing in Cape May County has been completed. Dr Thomas Chelius. chairman of academic sup port services at Atlantic Community College, and Stewart Tweed, Marine Extension Agent in the Cape May County Extension Office, directed the historical research which included examining old records qjid interviewing retired' C)Ommercial fishermen. The project includes a 68-page historical essay by R Craig Koedel, history professor at Atlantic Com-

munity, and a slide tape program. The essay is in the county library in Court House. Arrangements to see the slide program can be made by calling Dr. Chelius at 884-0090. The project was coordinated by the county library in conjunction with the Atlantic Community College, the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, the New Jersey Com mittee for the Humanities and the New Jersey Historical Commission. Some $6,000 in grants was made available from those organizations, but on ly about $3,000 spent. Dr Chelius said.

luncheon, semi-political stop at Otten's Harbor in Wildwood where the of ficials posed for pictures with Wildwood Mdyor Guy F Muziani and members of his "Wildwood First" team seeking election May 10. Muziani also is a state assemblyman. But fish were uppermost in the officials' minds as they talked to Lund's president Warren Lund and vice president Jeff Reichle and Sea Harvest executive officer Daniel M. Cohen. ALTHOUGH com petitors, all agreed more harbor dredging is crucial They said the state Depart ment of' Environmental Protection has dredging funds, but it goes to "whoever cries the loudest," according to Cohen. Lefevre offered to try to coordinate that problem with DEP. Cohen also said the U.S. Corps of Engineers comes to the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May. dredges one strip and West Avenue Contract Given OCEAN CITY - A $441,947 contract for reconstruction of West Ave. has been awarded by the New J<*rsey Depart ment of I Transportation. Commissioner John P Sheridan Jr. ^announced that over $7 million in construction contracLs were awarded in March.

SHE SKINS SQUID BY THE SEASHORE - Sarah Miller of Wildwood ( rest skins squid under the watchful eyes of, left to right. Warren Lund; president of Lund's Fisheries in lamer Township; Borden R. Putnam, state Commissioner of Commerce; Donad M. Kelly, executive director of the Cape May County Industrial and Economic Development Commission; and Kenneth C. Lefevre, director of the Commerce' Department's division

of Economic Development. leaves. He said it would make sensed once the equipment is here, to "do

much more."

Although there is no local trade association, Cohen and Reichle said they have an "informal group of dockholders with common

interests.

OTTEN'S HARBOR was described to Borden as "a thriving operation 20 years ago” ' "This used to be the pulse of the community," said Muziani. "It's a shamir it isn't being utilized. There is a lot of potential here." The Wildwood contingent said that Otten's Harbor's "fishing went to Cape

May 4"

And Muziani said that he was unaware of the fisheries' dredging problem

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