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.
Listen here:
More information about the East Hampton shellfish hatchery and its aquaculture
program is at ehamptonny.gov/149/Aquaculture
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