Politics & Government
Town Takes to Waters to Open Shellfishing
Focusing around the Cutchogue creek system, trustees and the Shellfish Advisory Board are taking water samples themselves to hasten the opening process, according to Newsday.
Town officials – trustees and members of the town's Shellfish Advisory Board – are taking to local waters to re-open them to shellfishing themselves, testing water quality and sending off samples instead of waiting for the Department of Environmental Conservation to test and open themselves.
According to Newsday, the officials have been trained and certified by the Department of Environmental Conservation to test water quality, and have focused largely on Cutchogue creeks, which was shut down by the state in 2004.
"What we're finding in Southold is that water-quality trends are actually improving," John Bredemeyer, a Southold trustee and member of the advisory committee, told Newsday. "But the DEC is stretched so thin, they have a daunting task."
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