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
Saturday, May 13th – 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM To a Celebration of Local Environmental Activists together with cultural creatives—poets, musicians, artists! And Launch of A Thousand Healthy Yards!Space is limitedRSVP: info@changehampton.orgMeet and hear the Teen Poet Laureate of Suffolk County, Ella O’Connor, and Sag Harbor poet, Kathryn Levy, reading poems inspired by their environmental passions.Hear the jazz music of Jane Hastay, piano, Peter Weiss Martin, String bass, and Carlos Jimenez, flute, and surprise vocalists.Silent auction of artworks by local artists who create from an environmental consciousness.We’ll be reporting on our Community Pollinator Garden at Town Hall. And launching our new
Approximately 102 acres in Flanders Bay and 1,429 acres in Shinnecock Bay are affected. The State Department of Environmental Conservation banned the harvest of shellfish and carnivorous gastropods from Flanders Bay in the Town of Riverhead and western Shinnecock Bay in the Town of Southampton on April 12. The presence of the marine biotoxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning, saxitoxin, was detected in mussels collected in Meetinghouse Creek and Shinnecock Bay. EAST HAMPTON PRESS ARTICLE
The Trustees maintain the health of Georgica Pond by opening it to the ocean. The cut was done this past March on a beautiful Spring day. The goal of this early spring letting is to provide tidal exchange between the ocean and the pond. Increased salinity, oxygen, and the migration of fish and other organisms are all a result of this beneficial practice which dates back to pre-colonial times. Interesting Information: Historically, clam shells were used as tools to open the pond to the ocean by the Indigenous People of East Hampton. Formed by a glacier, Georgica Pond is thought to have
Sponsored by the East Hampton High School TUESDAY APRIL 25, 2023 @6PM ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS WELCOME! Please RSVP to Dr. Forsberg at: Stephanie.Forsberg@ehschools.org EAST HAMPTON HIGH SCHOOL2 LONG LANE, EAST HAMPTON, NY 11937
Horseshoe crab mating season – Horseshoe crab spawning season is nearly here! For the last several years, the East Hampton Trustees have participated in the annual spawning event in an effort to help collect data for Cornell Cooperative Extension / Marine Program. Horseshoe crabs begin their mating season in May and go to July. Data collected includes spawning abundance, size, sex, and tag returns around the full and new moon events. Monitoring spawning horseshoe crabs is conducted throughout Long Island beaches. The Trustees will focus on our East Hampton town beaches as we have since we began our volunteer “citizen
Hosted by the Amagansett Life -Saving and Coast Guard Station – The Amagansett Life Saving Station will host a water safety day in preparation for summer’s activities. A host of sponsors will be on hand to give expert advice on a variety of safety issues for everyone of all ages – There will be refreshments, prizes, and a lot of information for our community members! Saturday, May 20th – 11AM – 2PM at the Amagansett Life-Saving Station on Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett. International Water Safety Day Announcement
“NO SPRING FLING” is coming – You’re all invited! Earth Day – April 22nd – May 13th, 2023 (See the list of events at the end of this post.) The Town of East Hampton Litter Committee’s Dr. Christine Ganitsch presented a month-long project entitled “No Fling Spring” to the Trustees at our meeting of March 27th. Created to inspire and motivate residents to “ACTION”, the public is invited to engage in several planned events throughout the month all with a focus on keeping our coastal communities free of debris. “Changing behavior is the toughest part,” said Dr. Ganitsch. The primary
Piping Plover sign at Little Albert’s Photo Carissa Katz The East Hampton Department of Natural Resource’s Anna Soccorsi advised the town board that seasonal volunteers are being sought to monitor the various locations where piping plovers come to nest and lay their eggs. Conservation efforts by both the town department, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the State Department of Environmental Conservation collaborate their efforts each season to help foster a healthy population of the shorebirds. The goal is to be able to remove the plovers from the Endangered Species Act. To volunteer please get in touch with Ms.
At our last Trustees meeting on March 27th, we voted unanimously to retain Dr. Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, to collect data as we have been, since 2013. Each year, the Trustees subcomittee meets with Dr. Gobler to review the previous year’s report to ascertain how to proceed going forward. This year, the study will include a fine-scale water quality analysis in Napeague Harbor and sediment survey. Additionally, this year will include a review of New York State Department of Environmental Conservation fecal coliform data to compare it with the Gobler Laboratory collected
March 26th, 2023 Celebrating with East Hampton Town Trustee’s Deputy Clerk and this year’s Grand Marshal of the parade, Jim Grimes! Grand Marshal Jim Grimes- and our Deputy Clerk Deputy Clerk Bill Taylor, Clerk Francis Bock, & Deputy Clerk and Grand Marshal Jim Grimes The East Hampton Town Trustees Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc and the EH Trustees Montauk Friends of Erin Parade police Eastern Long Island Police Pipes & Drums Montauk Friends of Erin Montauk Friends of Erin spectators arrive! EH Town Trustee attorney Chris Carillo and his baby daughter! Bag pipers Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, Clerk of the Trustees
The Cable is Ashore in Wainscott SFWF “Living Stone” and the second vessel laying the cable from the ocean to Wainscott beach landing – Completed in 24 hours. Photo Susan McGraw-Keber As of today, Friday, March 24th, the two-day project of laying the cable from the ocean waters to the Wainscott beach landing has been completed. While the vessels have departed, work at the landfall site will continue through the weekend, Saturday and Sunday (7AM – 7PM), to allow for the completion of cable installation activities within the onshore work zone. The work will be performed pursuant to Article VII
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.
