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where everybody agrees we have to work together, said Robert Demsey, plant manager at Snow Food Products, a division of Borden Inc. Snow sends 80- and 86-foot clam boats to sea throughout the year from docks near Lund's and Sea Harvest. Some of the Snow Boats draw nine to 10-feet; others draw 12-to-M-feet fully loaded. The harbor just isn't deep enough for them or other commercial boats that bring their catches to the 13 other docks in the port. CAPE MAY INLET is maintained by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a federal channel as is the county portion of the Intercoastal Waterway, which includes the canal between the harbor and Delaware Bay. According to Perry Sterling, spokesman for the corps, its engineers have started to dredge the canal as part of the corps' routine maintenance and they plan to dredge the ICW and Cape May Inlet (as far inshore as the Coast Guard base) later tHis year. Plans to dredge the inlet have been scrapped, however, noted Ray Pirritano, executive assistant to the corps district engineer The inlet, he said, won t be dredged this year because the corps decided it wasn't yet necessary, "Inside the harbor, we will be dredging this year up to Schellenger's Landing,” Pirritano explained "What we will be doing next year will depend on what's needed then " Dredging as far as Schellenger’s Landing will aid the com-

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mercial fishing craft that dock in the west end of the port not but those which dock at Lund's, Sea Harvest, Snow or Axelsson & Johnson on the north side of the harbor, Cohen complained. "THEY DON'T COME down here and solicit advice on where they should be dredging," he said of the corps. "The other part of the problem is, a lot of tne (inshore) areas are controlled by the state and it hasn’t been down here to dredge for years." Cohen estimated the cost of dredging the harbor at $1 million and said he feels there is sufficient "public need" for the state or federal governments to begin

the chore soon. “We hoping the community will lake note that the commercial fishing industry needs the dredg ing ” Cohen added "We re trying to do a lobbying effort to make the people aware of it." In late April, Cohen and other dock owners lobbied Kenneth Lefevre, state director of economic development. Lefevre told the dock owners he would take the matter up with the DEP. Contacted in mid-May, Lefevre said he hadn't yet discussed dredging with the DEP but planned to do so soon. "We haven't gotten complaints from anybody in that area,'' Sterl-

ing said when told of the dock owners' dredging gripes. THE CORPS, however, has been asked to investigate the matter and to notify the DEP of its findings, according to DEP spokesman George Klenk Within the next five months, he said, the DEP intends to survey the port to determine how much water flows at low tide and where the dredging waste might be dumped. If the surveyors decide that the port should be dredged, the dock owners will "mostly likely" wait a year, Klenk said, before they have to worry about cleaning the hulls of their boats in the absence of the natural polish ' from the shallow harbor The corps has already surveyed the harbor, though, according to Steward Tweed, county marine agent Apparently, state agenices don't know what federal agencies are doing and vice versa , the fishermen and dock owners are caught in the middle To cut the confusion and coordinate industry needs with government plans, Tweed has asked for a meeting of all parties That meeting was held yesterday, too late for the Herald and Lantern deadline.

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