Enter the annual kayak lottery for the season of 2023! Kayaks on a Beach Photo Susan McGraw-Keber Lottery Instructions
Napeague Harbor view from Lazy Point Photo Susan McGraw-Keber 2019 The Trustees wish everyone a peaceful, prosperous, and blessings in the coming year!
Please be advised that the overnight work detailed is anticipated to occur overnight early Tuesday morning, December 13th, weather permitting. As a reminder, this overnight work entails pulling the pipe into the drill bore, and is imperative that once it starts the work is completed on a continuous basis. Due to the length of the pipe and speed of pull back, it is expected that this will take in excess of 12 hours and is likely to fall outside standard site hours.
Check out the video by Frank Vespe of LTV Studios in Wainscott who covered our annual Largest Clam Contest on October 9th, 2022. A good time was had by all! Thanks to everyone who made our popular event a fantastic day to remember! Also available to view on YouTube! Clam Contest News Update
The owner of a small marina on a narrow creek that meanders off the northern end of Three Mile Harbor will convert half of his dock slips into a commercial oyster farm. The proposal won approval from the East Hampton Town Trustees this week after years of wending its way through other permitting processes with the State Department of Environmental Conservation and town planning and zoning boards. Cove Marina seeks to become an oyster hatchery – Photo Michael Wright The East Hampton Press John Nicholas, whose family has owned the Sunset Cove Marina off Mary’s Lane in Springs for 40
The Life Boat “Jill” Photos Michael Wright of The East Hampton Press The Life Boat vessel, “Jill” arrived off the shores of Wainscott this week. The platform can raise it’s platform high above the ocean’s waves. It will serve as a work station during the offshore segment of the installation of the cable connection for the South Fork Wind project by Orsted US. Horizontal drilling equipment on Beach Lane To read the full article from The East Hampton Press – Michael Wright, click on the tab below. DRILLING BEGINS FOR WIND CABLE IN WAINSCOTT
Adopted resolution regarding a one year moratorium extension on all new residential docks, catwalks, floating docks, floating structures, and platforms in Trustee waters from November 14, 2022 through November 22, 2022. . To access the entire resolution, link below: Dock Moratorium Extension Download
“The bay scallop season in waters under the East Hampton Town Trustees’ jurisdiction will open on Sunday at sunrise. Residents holding a town shellfish permit can continue to harvest them until sunset on March 31.” The Star’s fishing columnist enjoyed a better-than-expected catch on opening day for scallop harvesting in state waters on Monday morning.Robert Cugini To read the entire article by Jon M. Diat of The East Hampton Star, click on the tab below. On the water
Photo Gallery October 9th, 2022 Photos: Durell Godfrey & Kyril Bromley The Winning Largest Clam Contest 2022 – Winner- Susan Ceslow of Montauk Sampling clam chowder and clam pies!
A mass die-off of Peconic Bay scallops in June and July has spurred new initiatives to help the recovery of the hard-hit East End scallop industry. This is the fourth straight year of historically low scallop harvests. The annual scallop catch in 2020 and 2021 averaged only 3 percent of those in 2017 and 2018, according to a statement from Riverhead-based Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. Researchers from CCE attribute the mass die-offs to high disease levels exacerbated by higher water temperatures, low levels of dissolved oxygen, and the physiological stress of spawning by adult scallops amid the higher water
Sawyer Clark with a handful of “bug bay” scallops in 2021 Photo Mike Wright Surveys of two dozen sites around the Peconic Estuary by scientists from Cornell Cooperative Extension have once again revealed what appears to be an almost total die-off of adult bay scallops ahead of the opening of the annual harvest. IMPORTANT UP-DATE: The Trustees voted on October 24th at their meeting to delay the opening of the scallop season in Trustee waters until November 13, 2022. The season ends on March 31, 2023. To read the article click the tab: East hampton press mike wright
Saturday, November 5th from 10AM – 2PM – Community Service applies!
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.
