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On workingmens holiday, a
look at jobs in America. 8A

N.J. fishing
suffered
$300M loss
in Sandy

UNCOVERING
HISTORY
JERRY CARINO @NJHOOPSHAVEN

Dan Sivilich was skeptical of what his colleagues


would uncover during an archaeological dig at Red
Bank Battlefield, site of a key Revolutionary War battle in October 1777.
I would have bet my bottom dollar we would not
have found anything there, he said. Im shocked at
what was found.
They found a treasure trove of artifacts, including
a 3-pound Hessian cannonball, a shoe buckle, musket
balls, grapeshot and a picture frame.
I thought the site would have been illegally metaldetected and thoroughly contaminated with modern
reproduction artifacts, he said. This went way
above my expectations. Absolutely phenomenal.
Sivilich is president of BRAVO (Battlefield Restoration & Archaeological Volunteer Organization), a
Freehold-based group that sent more than a dozen
members to help out with the excavation at Red Bank,
which sits on the Delaware River in the small
Gloucester County town of National Park.
I had never heard of them, and I wasnt sure what
to expect, but I was pleasantly surprised, said Jennifer Janofsky, a Rowan professor who serves as the
battlefields curator. They were really, really good.

Freehold-based group
digs in to help at N.J.
Revolutionary War field

See HISTORY, Page 4A

The fishing sector in New Jersey suffered nearly


$300 million in estimated damages and lost earnings as
a result of superstorm Sandy, according to a new report
from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The report Social and Economic Impacts of Hurricane/Post Tropical Cyclone Sandy on the Commercial
and Recreational Fishing Industries: New York and
New Jersey One Year Later shows that the 3,100 fishing-related businesses in New Jersey provided 21,900
jobs and generated $342 million in 2014, with most of
that labor and economic impact emanating from the
Jersey Shore.
But the National Marine Fisheries Service found
that a year after the storm the seascape remained unsettled.
Some fishermen and other business owners will
never return to their previous occupations, the authors wrote, while many have literally picked up the
pieces and re-entered the industry.
The findings were part of an exhaustive survey of
2,278 commercial and charter fishermen, seafood dealers, bait and tackle stores, marinas and hatcheries in
New York and New Jersey.
Here are some of the conclusions from the report:
$294,334,219 in estimated total physical damages
and losses was inflicted by Sandy on all levels of the
fishing business in New Jersey. Only about 15 percent
of that figure was covered by insurance.

Work on Rt. 35
will begin again
after Labor Day
JEAN MIKLE @JEANMIKLE

COURTESY OF DAN SIVILICH

BRAVO member Ed Norako of Howell with a 3-pound


cannon ball that was most likely fired by the Hessians at
Red Bank Battlefield in National Park, Gloucester County.

South Jerseys Red Bank Battlefield is one of a long line of projects for
BRAVO, which formed in 1990 at Monmouth Battlefield State Park in
Manalapan and has excavated more than 11,000 artifacts from the site.

USA TODAY

RUSS ZIMMER @RUSSZIMMER

See FISHING, Page 5A

Human remains found?


BRAVO was contracted by historical preservation
company John Milner Associates, which began the
dig in June and has uncovered some fascinating stuff,
including an exploded cannon and potential human
remains. One of the projects goals is to locate the
mass graves of Hessians who were routed during the
Americans victory. They may have hit the spot last
week.
They are sending the bones out to a lab, Janofsky
said. When we talk about a piece of bone, its a fragment smaller than a dime. You can see the specks of

Many will never return


to fishing profession

TEENS USING E-CIGARETTES FOR POT PAGE 1B

TOMS RIVER The unofficial end of summer will


bring the return of construction work on Route 35 in
Ocean County.
The state Department of Transportation said construction will resume on Tuesday in the final section of
roadway that needs to be completed in Toms River, Lavallette and Brick.
The 12.5-mile section of Route 35 is the main northsouth thoroughfare on Ocean County's northern barrier island. It was badly damaged by Sandy's storm surge
when the Atlantic Ocean met Barnegat Bay.
The $341million rebuilding project is the single largest post-Sandy rebuilding project in New Jersey and is
being paid for largely with federal funds. To protect the
highway as well as the businesses and homes behind it,
a nearly $24 million steel wall was installed along the
beachfront in Mantoloking and Brick, with the Federal
Highway Administration picking up 80 percent of the
tab.
Reconstruction work was halted this summer in the
five-mile stretch of the highway in Lavallette, Toms
See WORK, Page 5A

New restaurant
brings flavor from
Mediterranean
to Red Bank
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