Creating Marine Habitat The Artificial Reef part 2

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's (FWC) artificial reef program, created in 1982, provides financial and technical assistance to coastal local governments, nonprofit corporations and state universities to develop artificial reefs and to monitor and evaluate these reefs. Florida has one of the most active artificial reef programs among the 14 Gulf and Atlantic coastal states involved in artificial reef development. Thirty-four of Florida's 35 coastal counties spread along 8,426 miles of tidal coastline (1,200 miles fronting the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean) are, or have been, involved in artificial reef development.