Division of Marine Fisheries Works to Remove Tires from Atlantic Beach

MOREHEAD Town – Next reviews of tires washing up on Atlantic Seaside this weekend in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, staff with the Division of Marine Fisheries this morning are doing work to clear the tires from the seashore.

Division personnel report that significantly less than one,000 tires washed ashore this weekend, concentrated among Fort Macon and Indian Seashore. Staff members are working with a small inmate crew to take away the tires from the seaside as speedily as feasible. The tires will be eliminated and taken to a staging region where a contractor who recycles tires will pick them up.

As component of its artificial reef system, in the 1970s the Division of Marine Fisheries produced synthetic reefs produced of tires for fish habitat and to produce attractive fishing grounds—the apply of using tires for artificial reefs has been discontinued for several years. However, tires from these outdated reefs are occasionally loosened during storms and wash ashore. DMF personnel believe that the tires that washed up this weekend came from the Atlantic Beach reef and the Onslow Bay Saltwater Fishing Club reef.