The shellfish population on Long Island’s east end is under multiple threats related to development of the land bordering its bays and estuaries.
The Town of East Hampton is acting to reverse the decline of a resource that was the basis of the livelihood of generations of its baymen.
The East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery was launched in 1989 after a region-wide series of smothering algae blooms (brown tide) that first appeared in 1985,devasted the area's shellfish resources.
John "Barley" Dunne is the director of the town’s Shellfish hatchery.
Host Francesca Rheannon talked with Dunne recently.
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More information about the East Hampton shellfish hatchery and its aquaculture
program is at ehamptonny.gov/149/Aquaculture
