Ripple Effect: Cornell University Helps Restore Long Island's Shellfish
September 24, 2019
September 24, 2019
ITHACA, New York, Sept. 24 -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Ed Warner pushes his boat off a sliver of Long Island waterfront that's been in his family since the 1800s. He is the fifth generation of Warner baymen - the locals' term for fisherman - to head out to eastern Shinnecock Bay in search of Mercenaria mercenaria, the hard clam.
"Clamming and fishing, they're in your blood," says Warner, as Hampton Bays, a coastal village in Southampton, N . . .
Ed Warner pushes his boat off a sliver of Long Island waterfront that's been in his family since the 1800s. He is the fifth generation of Warner baymen - the locals' term for fisherman - to head out to eastern Shinnecock Bay in search of Mercenaria mercenaria, the hard clam.
"Clamming and fishing, they're in your blood," says Warner, as Hampton Bays, a coastal village in Southampton, N . . .