Accabonac Harbor saltmarsh Photo Susan McGraw -Keber Great news for homeowners who don’t want the mosquito control program provided by Suffolk County Department of Public Works to spray near their property located near marsh and wetland areas. SMK On May 1, as part of its mosquito control program, the Suffolk County Department of Public Works began to spray biological and chemical pesticides in some tidal marsh and wetland areas here. The agency says that its “use for mosquito control does not pose an unreasonable level of risk to the public or to the environment and is permitted by the New
Horseshoe crab measuring and tagging During the month of May, lead by Trustee Tim Garneau, the annual spawning season and surveying of horseshoe crabs began. May 3rd was the kickoff of the 2023 horseshoe crab spawning survey . (Full Moon -2) Deputy Clerk Jim Grimes, and Trustees John Aldred, and David Cataletto have also been collecting information, measuring and tagging the horseshoe crabs on our various beaches in East Hampton. Provided by Cornell Extension Marine Program, here’s what goes into this important annual survey: Fill out ALL of the fields on the data forms. Take the offshore visibility measurement from
In the past few years, the Atlantic Ocean coastline has seen several whales and other marine animals wash ashore, deceased. There are various causes that may have contributed to their demise. One of the main causes of death is from vessel strikes. The ocean is filled with large ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean daily. The other prominent cause is the result of fishing gear entanglement. Malnourishment, disease, and old age are contributing factors to whale and other marine species deaths. Protect Whales – Patch – May 12, 2023 Michael DeSantis -Staff Writer Recently, twenty environmental organizations have called for New
Beach Clean-up Sponsored by The East Hampton Town Trustees and The East Hampton Litter Action Committee on Saturday morning, May 13th at Atlantic Beach. East Hampton Middle School Surfrider Club students and Trustee and teacher, David Cataletto Beach Clean Up EH Litter Action Committee East Hampton Town Trustees David Cataletto and Susan McGraw-Keber were at Atlantic Avenue beach on Saturday morning to sign up the Surfrider Club school volunteers and give them a “Save A Fish” “End Balloon Pollution” cotton T-shirt for helping to clean up the beach. The Surfrider Club members are also students of David’s 6th grade class
Stuart Vorphal, the iconic former East Hampton Town Trustee, fisherman, historian, and secretary of the East Hampton Bayman’s Association, built the steel boat now on display at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum at the corner of North Main Street and Cedar Street. Stuart Vorphal’s Vessel on view at East Hampton Historical Farm Photo Durell Godfrey “Mr. Vorpahl was a certified welder and built several boats, but his passion was fishing. In addition to his tenure as a town trustee and membership in the Baymen’s Association, he was also a member of the Long Island Commercial Fishing Association, the East
Saturday morning – May 6th, 2023 – The East Hampton Litter Action Committee’s “No Fling Spring” outreach to the Trustees to help in the month-long effort to educate and create awareness about litter debris gave us the opportunity to collaborate with the Lazy Point Association residents to clean up the surrounding beaches. Lazy Point Beach Clean Up May 6, 2023 LPA members, EH Town Trustees, SH Town Trustee, Volunteers from Schools Our local public school students joined in the effort – The John Marshall Elementary School, East Hampton Middle School’s Surfrider Club with their teacher and Trustee, David Cataletto, and
The East Hampton Town Trustees commissioned the study of fish migration near the installed landing site of the South Fork Wind Farm Export Cable. The Cornell bottom trawl survey will be conducted next week, between May 8 – 14, 2023. Cornell bottom trawl survey map The Cornell bottom trawl survey will be conducted to provide a consistent sampling of finfish and invertebrates in the affected area and an associated reference area. Survey data will be used to document fish populations, as well as to inform the environmental review process that minimizes construction impacts on fisheries resources. Coordinating access to the
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation Effective April 20, 2023, the following areas below are temporarily closed to the harvest of shellfish and carnivorous gastropods. This action is taken to protect public health after mussels tested positive for saxitoxin, a marine biotoxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP), and exceeded levels that require closures. DEC will continue to monitor for the presence of biotoxins in shellfish at several monitoring locations around Long Island and implement closures as necessary. For the full NYSDEC report click on the link below. https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/7765.html
Public Invited : Saturday – May 6th – 6:00PM Hurricane of ’38 presentation poster
Dr. Christopher Gobler and Jaime LeDuc of Concerned Citizens of Montauk Photo Jen Goleski With the recent unanimous vote by the Suffolk County Parks Commission trustees’ to not trade land with the Town of East Hampton to accommodate a sewage treatment plant in Hither Woods, Concerned Citizens of Montauk has retained Dr. Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences to assess Montauk’s wastewater issues. Read the article from the East Hampton Star by Christopher Walsh here: EH STAR ARTICLE
Trustee Mike Martinsen bringing home fresh oysters to Montauk Harbor! Bountiful harvest of oysters – Montauk Harbor and Montauk Oysters. A Bountiful Oyster Harvest – Trustee Mike Martinsen Coming home to Montauk Harbor at the end of a bountiful day, Trustee Mike Martinsen’s love and appreciation of the sea’s gifts is in his bones and heart. “This was our first seed planting of the year. My son, Avery and I purchased 317,000 one year old seed oysters, each about the size of a nickel and placed into approximately 400 floating grow out bags then deployed at our nursery site in
Statement from Orsted Regarding Mooring System in Use
“As part of the fish monitoring study outlined in the SFW Fisheries Study Work Plan, the Stony Brook University team is conducting a regular visit to the sensor array off Wainscott today to collect data from sensors, replace batteries, and deploy new retrievable moorings alongside the previous moorings. As the Stony Brook team is deploying new moorings alongside the existing moorings there’s no change to the mariners briefing, our standard method for updating mariners on the presence of equipment in navigational waters. Members of the fisheries outreach team, in collaboration with the research team, have worked with the fishing community to select an alternative mooring, one that is smaller, lightweight and retrievable, and is more compatible with commercial fishing in response to the feedback we’ve received from the community on original deployment of cement moorings.”
Images of the mooring system and a diagram are shown below.
