East Hampton Town Trustees

Seeding Three Mile Harbor with clams and oysters September 15 2023

Trustee Adventures: Seeding Three Mile Harbor: Clam & Oysters- September 15 , 2023

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 inRead More
Phil Karlin, a Riverhead fisherman who works Long Island Sound from Mattituck, checks a lobster pot that turned out to be empty. Credit: Newsday/Mark Harrington

Lobsters Scarce in Western L.I.

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 underRead More
Warning sign advising of the East Hampton Town Ocean Beaches Closures to swimming due to dangerous surf conditions.

WARNING: Ocean Beaches CLOSED to Swimming

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 noRead More
A dead humpback whale in Lido Beach, New York on January 31, 2023. SETH WENIG / AP PHOTO

East Coast Whales: What is Causing Their Deaths?

A dead humpback whale in Lido Beach, New York on January 31, 2023. SETH WENIG / AP PHOTO Activists are blaming a recent spate of humpback strandings off New York and New Jersey on seismic exploration by offshore wind companies. But scientists say the deaths are not unusual andRead More
The freshwater wetlands are those that are currently regulated under the New York State Freshwater Wetlands Act. Most of the freshwater sites are no longer regulated by the EPA. Source: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Credit: Map by Newsday/Arielle Martinez

Despite Court Ruling- New York State Law Could Protect Long Island Wetlands –

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 wetlandsRead More

Ocean Beaches

The Trustees generally claim ownership of certain ocean beaches WEST of Napeague Lane to Georgica Association and WEST of Georgica Association to East of Town Line Road.

Beach sunset of pink and blue wih the Moon


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