To the editor,
In "Professional Boat Builder" (Dec/Jan 2012, page 12) there is an article about a company that produces a machine that for a high cost, grinds up derelict fiberglass boats for disposal.
Instead of grinding up derelict boats, and landfilling the grindings, why not take essentially all derelict boats out to relatively deep water sink them and at a relatively low cost, use them to build up artificial reefs thereby creating much improved fishing — generally 10 times better fishing?
For example, in the Gulf of Mexico the artificial reefs created by the underwater piping of the approximately 4,000 oil rigs in the Gulf off the coast of Louisiana increased the commercial fishing catch by about 1O times over what it had been before the oil wells had been installed.
Rep. Robert Kingsbury
Laconia
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