But, he said, the most serious industry interest has been in waters between Sandy Hook and Seaside Heights, exactly the areas that the moratorium would affect.
Hardest hit were the Monmouth County communities between Sandy Hook and Belmar, they say.
The state has 157 miles of beaches between Sandy Hook and Cape May.
Under this Act, a series of light house stations were set up between Sandy Hook and Little Egg Harbor.
The Half Moon sailed into New York Harbor and was anchored between Coney Island and Sandy Hook.
The work, scheduled to begin this spring, is the first leg of beach repair between Sandy Hook and Barnegat Inlet, a project that is expected to cost $1.2 billion.
In New Jersey, the sections to be cleaned up are being selected from the area between Sandy Hook and the George Washington Bridge.
He too viewed the storm's damage by helicopter, flying over the coastal areas of northern Monmouth County between Sandy Hook and Long Branch.
Kaiser's Cup was a yachting race across the Atlantic between Sandy Hook, New Jersey and The Lizard.
MD 180 was assigned to the highway bypassed by the US 340 freeway between Sandy Hook in far southern Washington County and Jefferson in the mid-1960s.