08.29.2018 Around the Island Kids’ Snapper Derby returns Rig up your poles kids, because the Annual Shelter Island Snapper Derby is back!
07.08.2013 Government State kills bill extending striped bass season A New York Senate bill to extend the striped bass season by two weeks went belly-up after it failed to make it through an Assembly committee. The Senate bill,...
03.01.2013 News Bill passes Senate that could benefit commercial fishermen Life could get just a little easier for East End commercial fishermen if a bill Senator Kenneth LaValle (R-C-Port Jefferson) ushered through the New York State Senate has the...
11.20.2012 News Warmed by memories on the cold, crisp mornings On bluebird days in November and December, we’d haul our barnacle-encrusted bait barrel and carefully shake out enough green crabs for a half day of blackfishing. Inclement days, on...
11.09.2012 Government DEC reopens some shellfishing areas The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Thursday some shellfishing areas around Long Island have been reopened. The DEC had initially closed shellfishing area on Oct. 29, the morning...