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After Montauk, Hampton Bays is the second-busiest commercial fishing port in the state of New York. According to 2014 statistics by the National Marine Fisheries Service, 4.7 million pounds of finfish and shellfish, worth $5.5 million, were landed in the Hampton Bays/Shinnecock port. [11]
The Shinnecock Canal (also known as the Shinnecock and Peconic Canal) is a canal that cuts across the South Fork at Hampton Bays, New York. At 4,700 feet (1,400 m) long, it connects Great Peconic Bay and the north fork of Long Island with Shinnecock Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. The canal opened to traffic in 1892. [1]
The Ponquogue Bridge is a 2,812-foot-long (857 m) bridge over Shinnecock Bay in Hampton Bays, New York.Maintained by the Department of Works for Suffolk County, the 29-span bridge carries two lanes of County Route 32 over the bay, connecting Hampton Bays to the eastern end of Westhampton Island. [3]
The New York Department for Environmental Conservation has announced new length limits for recreational striped bass fishing during the 2024 season. NY introduces new length limits for 2024 ...
Shinnecock Inlet is the easternmost of five major inlets [1] connecting bays to the Atlantic Ocean through the narrow 100-mile-long (160 km) Outer Barrier that stretches from New York City to Southampton, New York on the south shore of Long Island. It splits Westhampton Island from the peninsula extending from Southampton Village.
The two Peconic Bays are often collectively referred to as "the Peconics". The Peconics are a tidal estuary system fed at the western end by the Peconic River . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Other notable tidal estuary creeks which provide brackish water to the system are Meeting House Creek, Brushes Creek, James Creek, and Deep Hole Creek on the North Fork.
After World War II, the lake became a well-known commercial and sports fishing area, and became New York's largest fishing port. [4] In the 1970s, a proposal was made to dam the sound and build a canal through the former Montaukett Indian Field and Big Reed Pond for a new outlet. The plan included a proposal for constructing more than 1,000 ...
Napeague State Park is a 1,364-acre (5.52 km 2) state park in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York. [1] The largely undeveloped park stretches across the entire narrow width of the South Fork of Long Island from the Atlantic Ocean to Gardiners Bay and Block Island Sound.