Due to the recent rains the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has closed the following East Hampton Town Harbors to Shell fishing: Three Mile Harbor, Accabonac Harbor and Hog Creek until further notice. Therefore, the Trustees will ONLY be accepting Contest Clams from Napeague Harbor and Lake Montauk on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022 for the Annual Clam Contest. Judging for the LARGEST CLAM and Clams from Three Mile Harbor, Accabonac Harbor and Hog Creek will be postponed for Two weeks. Contest Clams dug from Three Mile Harbor, Accabonac Harbor and Hog Creek must be brought to the Trustee
Need East Hampton Town Shellfish Permit The east end has been experiencing poaching in various harbors, including Georgica Pond, over the summer months and continuing into the Fall. The Trustees invited Commanding Officer Tim Treadwell of the East Hampton Marine Patrol, to address the issue at our last meeting on September 26th. The discussion among the members of the Trustees and Officer Treadwell centered around various ways to curtail the poaching through penalties that include higher monetary fines, the revocation of the violator’s fishing license, and other deterrents and penalties that would mimic commercial fishermen regulations. Most poaching has been
The East Hampton Town Trustees are seeking high school volunteers to help with our annual “Largest Clam & Chowder Contest” who will receive a certificate of community service from and new T-shirt from us! Please follow the instructions below and JOIN The Environmental Awareness Club! A huge “Thank you” to Aubrey Peterson, East Hampton High School social worker and Director of The Environmental Awareness Club for supporting the Trustees in this, and many other projects we are work on to help preserve and protect the environment.
Join the East Hampton Town Trustees for their annual clam contest and more! Date: Sunday, October 9th Location: The East Hampton Town Trustees office- at the corner of Bluff Road and Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett. Time: Noon to 3pm! You won’t want to miss the clam chowder contest with judges Florence Fabricant of the NYT Food & Wine critic and author of several cookbooks, Sara Davison of Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, and Marie Valenti of Multi-Aquaculture Systems in Napeague, clams on the half shell from Montauk Seafood, “Mrs. Roman’s Bonac Clam Chowder” prepared by Chef Paul Roman, The Lynn
This past weekend all were invited to participate in a beach clean-up co-sponsored by the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation (FOGP) and Surfrider Foundation Long Island Chapter at Georgica Beach. Joining the effort were East Hampton Town Trustee David Cataletto, his toddler son, and Trustee Deputy Clerk Jim Grimes who helped fellow Trustee Tim Garneau and his wife, Courtney, who heads the local chapter of Surfrider, gather plastics, bottle tops, nets, and a host of other items of debris that litter the beautiful beach surrounding Georgica Pond. Sara Davison, the Executive Director of the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, reported
On Sunday, October 9th from 12 Noon to 3PM, the East Hampton Town Trustees will hold our 32nd Annual “Largest Clam & Chowder Contest” – This year we are excited and pleased to welcome Florence Fabricant as a judge for the clam chowder contest. Ms. Fabricant is the New York Times food and wine critic, an author of several cooking books including East Hampton’s “Ladies Village Improvement Society Cookbook”, and a resident of East Hampton and New York City. In addition, the Trustees are thrilled to have Marie Valenti of Multi-Aquaculture Systems located in Amagansett and Sara Davison of the
Dr. Joyce Novak, the Executive Director of The Peconic Estuary Partnership (PEP) , attended the Trustee’s meeting of September 12th to discuss the proposed projects submitted last month for PEP’s review. They include Accabonac Harbor salt marsh and wetlands improvement, restoration and rehabilitation and Napeague Harbor to restore eelgrass beds and is considered a “coastal adaptation and resiliency project.” Both projects require extensive permitting with federal and state agencies. Accabonac Harbor Photo: Durell Godfrey Click on the tab below for complete details from The East Hampton Star: Peconic estuary: The Money’s there, with a catch by christopher walsh
Main Beach Ocean breakers onto shore 2022 Photo by Susan McGraw-Keber Date: September 21, 2022 Time: 5:30PM Place: Duck Creek Farm in Springs Join Samantha Klein, Kim Shaw, and Kathleen Fallon to learn about what the recently approved Coastal Assessment Resiliency Plan means for our community. Free admission to the public.
This weekend- The Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce is getting ready for another fun-filled weekend of HarborFest. The post-Labor Day tradition, which attracts tourists and locals alike to the Sag Harbor waterfront, will return the weekend of September 10-11, running each day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Scofflaws performed on the green on Long Wharf Whale Ho! HARBORFEST IS BACK!
Invitation to the public: We hope to see you in a little less than two weeks at our #SouthForkWind virtual open house! We’ll be providing updates on Fall construction as well as giving a general project update to New York’s first offshore wind farm. Wind Turbines off the coast of Block Island Photo by David L. Ryan The Boston Globe / Getty Images https://southforkwindvirtual.com/SitePages/Home.aspx Please join the South Fork Wind team for a virtual open house on Monday, September 12th, 2022, starting at 6:00 p.m., to hear the latest updates on South Fork Wind’s continued onshore construction in Town roads
Three Mile Harbor Photo Carissa Katz This month, the Trustees have begun a survey of all docks in waters in their jurisdiction. A drone survey of the shorelines will help identify docks accurately. The intention is to document existing docks and to clarify those that are permitted and those that are not. Currently, there is a year long moratorium that the Trustees voted to implement on all new dock applications. Click on the tab below to read the full article as published in The East Hampton Star by Christopher Walsh. Trustees Dock Survey—East Hampton Star
Blue Claw Crabs – Photo by Trustee Tim Garneau – NYC Chinatown. This summer season members of the East Hampton Town Marine Patrol and Police Department have been on alert as poachers from up island, Queens, Staten Island, and New York City have been arriving in large groups to poach crabs. Earlier this Spring/Summer, the poachers came east to illegally take horseshoe crabs during their mating season. Both Georgica Pond and Napeague Harbor have been targeted for illegal taking of blue claw and fiddler crabs. It has been reported that several vehicles deliver a dozen or more people to various
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.
