Episode 39: A bucket of clams
For this edition of LI Bizcast, co-host Ambrose Clancy opens up about a shellfish relocation program that is, shucks, causing one man to really rake in the clams. Next, finance reporter Laura Theis...
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About 5,000 years ago, when tribes of Indians settled on the east end of Long Island, they discovered a wealth of food. The first growth forests teemed with deer and turkey. Fin fish swam in huge...
View ArticleClammers shuck off Suffolk’s leasing of bay space
A plan to turn 110,000 underwater acres in Peconic and Gardiner bays into thousands of private shellfish farms is facing opposition from some baymen as well as a leading environmental group that is...
View ArticleAquaculture plan is OK
By Thomas A. Isles Your Sept. 5 article regarding Suffolk County’s proposed shellfish aquaculture program in Peconic and Gardiners Bay, entitled “Shell Game: Baymen Battle over Proposed Program,” was...
View ArticleRough morning for local shellfish
Filtering the water of impurities is job number one for clams, oysters, scallops and other seabed mollusks. That’s a good thing, since they’ll be working overtime in Wantagh now. About 51,000 gallons...
View ArticleNo shellfish, thanks to staff shortages
It’s usually a wicked tempest that causes local shellfish beds to close, due to all of the pollutants that run off into the water after rainstorms. But a staff shortage? According to 27 East, the...
View ArticleSuffolk leases underwater
Suffolk County will lease more than 3,000 acres of underwater land in Peconic Bay and Gardiners Bay for the raising and harvesting shellfish. County Executive Steve Levy created an aquaculture leasing...
View ArticleAquaculture firm fishes for a site
After the Town of Brookhaven torpedoed a company’s plan to build an indoor fish and vegetable farm in Port Jefferson Station, the firm has found a Yaphank industrial site for the project. Blue Green...
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