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i74th Year, No. 46 Freeport, N.Y. H520
The Community Newspaper
County champs
BREAKING AWAY: Freeport star tailback Kevin Allen fights off woulck)e tacklers in the county final versus Farmingdale (top), a 34-20 Freeport win. Bejow,- Allen runs for daylight in the county semi-final against Baldwin, a 34-0 Freeport win. Allen scored 31 touchdowns in 2009, a new county record. Leader photos
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Thursday, November 26, 2009 750
FLHPSY system
supports shellfish
sustalnablllty
by Douglas Pinlay
Cutbacks at the state level to certify water quality in Hempstead Bay is affecting the livelihood of Hempstead shellfishermen who clam in the bay and the quality of clams to local fish markets and restaurants, leading the Freeport-based Hempstead Shellfishermen's Association to call on the state to relinquish its jurisdiction to the Town of Hempstead temporarily to certify the waters until cutbacks can be restored.
Members of the shellfishermen's association talked recently with The Leader to express their dismay at the state's closing of conditional certified fields for a second straight year because it is those conditional areas that shellfishermen depend on in winter to supply their customers with clams.
"These closings are changing our whole lives," remarked Ed Thomas, a vice-president of the shellfish-ermen's'association. "Clamming is our 'meat and potar toes' and we rely on winter clamming to get us through the winter," he continued.
Bob Roth, a one-time New York City police officer but now a full-time shellfisherman, added, "Closing these conditional waters in the winter puts us out of work."- i .
.Without the conditional areas to work in the winter time, he said he has to go to the year-round clam fields and try to dig up any clams that might be left, a difficult endeavor because any clams left are burrowed farther down and the sandy bottom is much harder to work in winter.
Conditional areas are those designated by the state to be open from October through May only - dependent upon, rainfall - and are clammable during those months, enabling stocks to replenish in part because of the Town of Hempstead's aggressive clam-seeding program that can now grow eight niillion clams for seeding into those areas.
The large volume of shellfish in these conditional areas means there are plenty of them near the top of the hard, sandy bottom to dig out, even in winter.
Shellfishermen and recreational shellfishermen can clam in certified areas that are open all year, but those areas are quickly depleted of clams because they are often overworked by both the Hempstead Town-licensed shellfishermen and town-licensed recreational shellfishermen, making the winter conditional areas ideal to both shellfishermen and local fish markets.
"I rely on winter clamming and the clams stay within 90% of the local community because they ask for local clams at the fish markets," said
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At Freeport Library
page 2
St. Christoplier's
fights bullying
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FHS students host
German visitors
page 6
Freeport village
holiday news
page 8
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| Title | The-Leader_2009-11-26 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L&M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2009 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | PDF; TIFF |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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