Sarasota County Reef Ball Projects

• Steve Garber Reef
• ]June 14, 2004, Herald Tribune.com- Parrot Heads by the hundreds live to be Buffetted  
  Part II
• March 21, 2004 Harlee Middle School Project
• CNN's "Global Challenges" Reef Ball Segment (Audio.mp3) Video broadcast Aug 29, 2004. Videos: Medium Resolution (7 Megs Windows Media)  Low Resolution (2 Megs Windows Media)
• ENN- Environmental News Network [Eternal Reefs Announces 2004 Memorial Reef Locations] Sept 20, 2004
• Artificial Reef Summit April 27-28, 2004
• March  30, 2004 "18 laid to rest within 'reef balls' off Lido Key" Sarasota, FL
• "Building Esteem" Sarasota Herald March 18, 2004 
• Underwater Monitoring, Sarasota, May 2001
• Rotonda West Deployment in their canal system 
  -Photos at Rotonda West 
• Sarasota Image Monitoring (June '96)
• Mote Marine Reef Balls (Exhibit of Reef Balls at Mote)
• Under Dock Monitoring, Sarasota Bay Balls, 1 year growth 
• Environmental Protection Agency's  April 2003 - Issue 13.2 > Sarasota Bay NEP Restores Reef Habitat 
• Sarasota Herald Tribune, March 23, 2002, "Retirees here have great impact, even when they're leaving for good". (Cover B Section)
• Mold grants were approved for the Sarasota Sportfishing Club to produce a club reef in Sarasota Bay from Jan 1998 until March of 1998 from the Reef Ball Foundation.
• ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL ESTUARY PROGRAMS, June 2001 Update
• Sept 28, 2000 / Pelican Press - Lifestyles:  "A Reef Under Your Dock?"
• May 2000-Sarasota Herald Tribune: "You can fool Mother Nature"
• May 31, 2000 / School Board of Sarasota County: "Classroom on Wheels"
• July 30, 1999 / Sarasota Bay: "4-H Club Does It's Part for Marine Life"
• Reefs Around the World Acceptance Letter from RBF for Sarasota Sportfish Anglers Club
• July 8, 1999 / Pelican Press: "Rednecks help make fishing better"
• Sarasota Herald, "4-H Club does it's part for the bay marine life"
• 4-H Club Press Release
• Sarasota Herald Tribune, June 26, 1998, "Reef To Order" 
• Pelican Press, May 21, 1998, "Is it a marker or a sign for fish?" 
• Sarasota Herald Tribune, Business Weekly, April 6, 1998, "Turning over a new reef"
• Sarasota Herald, March 7, 1997 Fishing Weather Hot Spots,
  -Page 2
• Reefs Around the World Acceptance Letter from RBF for Booker High School
• Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Oct. 3, 1996, "Reef Balls"
• Resource Watch, Summer/Fall 1996, "Innovative artificial reef projects give marine habitat a boost"
• Pelican Press, Sept. 26, 1996, Page 11 "Bay Reef Improvements" 
• Pelican Press, Jan 4, 1996, Page 13, "Placing Reef Balls in the Gulf" "New Fishing Reefs Down"
• Environmental Protection Agency's  April 2003 - Issue 13.2 > Sarasota Bay NEP Restores Reef Habitat
• Artificial Reef Construction as a Soft Bottom Habitat Restoration Tool, Mote Marine June 30, 1997 by Culter and Truitt 
• Sarasota Artificial Reef Program Brochure (PDF Format)
• Exhibit of Reef Balls at Gulfcoast Wonder & Imagination Zone (G.WIZ)1001 Boulevard of the Arts Sarasota, FL  34236 Phone: 941-906-1851 ext. 118 Fax: 941-906-7292 www.gwiz.org 

Honorable mention 1998 Most Innovative Use of Reef Balls - Sarasota County, Florida for their use of Reef Balls combined with channel markers and other aids to navigation.

Mold Owners

Reef Innovations is licensed to build unlimited molds for its own commercial use only.  They have well over 100 Reef Ball molds in all sizes.  Reef Innovations is one of the Reef Ball Foundation Inc. Services Division's licensed mold builders.

Kelly Brothers, Inc. was lent two Bay Ball molds on 08/25/1995for evaluation of possible production for commercial projects and has not yet returned them as of 6/2003.  These molds are not licensed for use.

Artificial Reef Coordinators For Sarasota County

Other Information:

Gary E. Raulerson
Senior Environmental Scientist
Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program
111 South Orange Avenue Suite 200W
Sarasota, Florida 34236
941-951-3650 (V)
941-951-3659 (F)
Gary_Raulerson@sarasotagov.com
www.sarasotabay.org

Richard Martin, Commissioner richard_martin@sarasotagov.com 

Jeff Jackson, Director, Booker High School Environmental Science Academy bhs@edmail.com 

Red Tide Current Status for Southwest Florida

Coordinates for Reef Balls in the County

See Table in Map Above

OFFSHORE
DEPLOY DATE  (# of Reef Balls) LATITUDE LONGITUDE

M4 REEF:
6/24/98   (106) 2715.149 8243.182
6/24/98 (106)  2715.166 8243.149
180 Reef Balls 27"02.47' N/82" 38.81'W 

M-17 REEF
11/30/95 M-17 (60) 2702.470 8238.810
11/29/95 M-17 (60) 2702.470 8238.810
11/28/95 (60) 2702.470 8238.810

INSHORE
DEPLOY DATE  (# of Reef Balls) LATITUDE LONGITUDE

NO NAME REEFS
8/11/01  (104)  2659.049 8242.806
8/10/01 (113)  2659.048 8242.798

MOTE REEF
11/13/99  (40) 2720.409 8233.316

WALKER REEF
2/1/00  (24)  2722.977 8235.940
10/10/99  (140)  2722.998 8235.937
10/10/99  (35) 2722.685 8235.539
10/10/99 (35)  2722.291 8235.500
10/10/99 (35) 2722.998 8235.937
10/10/99 (35)  2722.678 8236.013

GERKIN REEF
7/30/99 (9) 2720.429 8233.296

SAPRITO PIER REEF
9/29/98 (150) 2720.030 8233.372

JANTZEN REEF
9/26/97 (70) 2719.709 8233.849

HART REEF
9/24/97 (75) 2722.075 8234.477

SPORTFISH ANGLERS REEF
6/25/98  (150) 2721.080 8235.883

CHANNEL MARKER REEFS
9/29/97 BAY (7) 2719.909 8234.356
11/21/96 LIDO   2719.793 8234.431
11/18/96 LIDO (15) 2718.316 8233.923

MORE INSHORE (General Locations with Reef Balls)
Reef Name                   Lat/Long                      Depth               Location                                

The Bulkheads  27°32.20’ N/  82°42.40’ W    16 feet   Sarasota Bay 
Southeast Tampa 27°32.90’ N /82°40.30’ W 14 feet    Sarasota Bay  
Emerson Point    27°31.84’ N / 82°38.77’ W   11 feet  Manatee River     
Bayshore North 27°24.50’ N  / 82°36.10’ W 11 feet    Sarasota Bay  
Bayshore South  27°23.90’ N  / 82°35.67’ W 12 feet   Sarasota Bay   
Johnnie Walker 27°22.38’ N  /   82°35.72’ W 12 feet   Sarasota Bay    
Deamus Hart    27°22.08’ N  / 82°34.48’ W    10 feet   Sarasota Bay   
Pop Jantzen      27°19.71’ N  /   82°33.85’ W    7 feet   Sarasota Bay   
Anglers’ Club    27°21.08’ N  /  82°35.88’ W   12 feet   Sarasota Bay   
Zack’s Hole      27°25.67’ N  / 82°38.42’ W    10 feet   Sarasota Bay                      
Whale Key       27°23.50’ N   / 82°36.25’ W  12 feet    Sarasota Bay                           
Bradenton Beach Pier   27°27.99’ N / 82°41.65’ W  8 feet Sarasota Bay                        

Reef Innovations, Inc.

Reef Innovations, Inc. (RI) is a worldwide mobile, authorized, licensed and insured Reef Ball Contractor providing turnkey construction and delivery of Reef Ball products worldwide. RI also offers Reef Ball mold training and finished module inspection services. Check our Website for more information.

Reef Innovations
2415 McMichael Road
St. Cloud, Fl 34771

larry@reefball.com 
Cell: (941)650-2519
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