The annual Fall seeding of Three Mile Harbor – 2,000 oysters and 240,000 clams, were scattered in the waters this past Friday! This year the students of Southold Junior and Senior High School joined us to help spread the seedlings grown at the East Hampton Shellfish Hatchery located in Montauk and East Hampton. Director John “Barley” Dunne gave the students a lesson in oyster and clam characteristics and how they are grown in the hatchery. Barley invited the students to visit the Montauk location where the seeds are first grown. A fascinating tour; classes begin in the New Year if
Long Island Sound lobstermen have held out hope that waters from Northport to Mattituck might see a resurgence after a decadeslong decline. But the numbers aren’t materializing. New York state reported record-low landings of lobsters in 2022, the first year in which the dwindling number of lobstermen reported a catch that fell under 100,000 pounds. The 82,987 pounds reported last year was a drop of 23,000 pounds from 2021, and continued a steady decline that has beset the fishery from a late 1990s die-off. Al Schaffer, a longtime lobsterman who fishes out of Montauk, said he’s seen steady lobster fishing in the waters off Fishers Island
UPDATE: As of Saturday afternoon, September 16th, the East Hampton Ocean Rescue/ Life Guard Association has re-opened the beaches for swimming again as hurricane “Lee,” has passed the east end and is now located on Cape Cod, headed to Maine and Nova Scotia. Caution is still advised, and no one should swim alone. Lifeguards were at Atlantic Avenue, Main Beach, and Georgica beaches today. Be advised, all Town of East Hampton OCEAN BEACHES are hereby CLOSED to swimming due to dangerous surf conditions and strong rip currents. John Ryan Jr., Chief of East Hampton’s Lifeguards has cautioned that Thursday’s surf
The Main Pond at Hoyt Farm in Commack in September. A Supreme Court ruling in May means the Environmental Protection Agency will no longer regulate smaller bodies of water across the nation unless they have a direct connection to a larger, navigable one. Credit: Barry Sloan Small freshwater wetlands like this provide habitat for dozens of species, offer protection against flooding and help clean water that filters into underground aquifers such as on Long Island. But in May, the U.S. Supreme Court declared they don’t merit protection under the federal Clean Water Act, which for the past 50 years has
Photo Andrew Gaites The spotted lanternfly, a pest now common in New York City, has made its way to the East End. On Tuesday, Andy Gaites, the principal environmental analyst in East Hampton Town’s Department of Land Acquisition and Management, found two on an ailanthus tree just south of Halsey’s Marina, in a preserve at 41 Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road. To read the article by Christopher Gangemi : EH STAR
Join the Town of East Hampton’s Litter CleanUp Day at one of these locations on September 16th! Reach out to the organizers via email to sign up! Our community members are all welcome! Trustee Susan McGraw-Keber will join the Lazy Point Association members at 9AM at the boat ramp to help pick up litter at the beaches and roadways!
Please be advised, the Trustees have hereby cancelled the executive session which was previously scheduled to take place on Friday, September 8, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. at Town Hall.
SPECIAL GARDEN TOUR SUNDAY, Sunday, September 10th @ 11 AM. COMMUNITY NATIVE/POLLINATOR GARDEN AT EAST HAMPTON TOWN HALL. A public-private project between ChangeHampton and Town of East Hampton. The starting point of our garden tour 159 Pantigo Rd., EH. Photo: Abby Lawless LEARN ABOUT POLLINATOR/NATIVE GARDENS, RAIN GARDENS & BIOSWALES Photo by Laurie Petroske The Bioswale at Methodist Lane, East Hampton. Photo: Surfrider A DIFFERENT KIND OF GARDEN TOUR! BEAUTY & ECO-SERVICES —We begin at ChangeHampton’s Community Pollinator Garden at East Hampton Town Hall. Tour guides: Abby Clough Lawless, Farm Landscape Design, designer of the garden and Paul Muñoz, Eco-Harmony Inc. whose crews have done the heavy landscaping
Boats returning to Lake Montauk this June after the Blessing of the Fleet. Judging from the volume of boat pumpouts, the town trustees say recreational boating has slackened in Lake Montauk this year. Higher costs and diminished Covid concerns are blamed. Jane Bimson The Trustees will soon calculate this season’s number of vessels that utilized our pump-out boats that service boats of Montauk and Three Mile harbors at the end of this season. Observing the last few years, including those of the pandemic when there was a noticeable increase of use of our free services for the collection of waste
Photo NASA So-called “super” because it’s slightly closer to Earth and “blue” because it’s the second full moon in a month. It peaks at 9:36pm ET on Aug. 30 (0136 UTC on Aug. 31). Tonight: The full Moon will be Wednesday night, August 30, 2023, appearing opposite the Sun (in Earth-based longitude) at 9:36 PM EDT. The planet Saturn, just a few days from its closest and brightest for the year, will appear near the Moon. As evening twilight ends (at 8:42 PM) Saturn will be 5 degrees to the upper right of the Moon, and will appear to swing
A species of waterborne bacteria that can cause life-threatening wound infections has killed three people and sickened others in New York and Connecticut. One East Hampton Town resident was sickened after swimming off Gerard Drive in Springs. Photo & article: Christopher Walsh East Hampton Star *Tune in to the East Hampton Town Trustees meeting on Monday evening, August 28th at 6:30pm on Channel 22, LTV public television- Guest: Dr. Christopher Gobler of Gobler Laboratories of Stony Brook University, will provide information regarding our waters and the recent discovery of vibrio vulnificus in various waters from the Long Island Sound to
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.
