NEW YORK — January 24, 2014 — A group of baymen has filed a lawsuit against New York City over shellfish-bed pollution they believe was caused by massive releases of raw sewage during superstorm Sandy.
The Baymen’s Protective Association represents about 76 people who harvest clams from the Raritan and Sandy Hook bays in New Jersey.
In a lawsuit filed Friday, the group said that sewage outflows from New York City wastewater plants crippled by the storm contaminated those fishing grounds in 2012.
Attorney Sean Regan of Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla in Red Bank is representing the Baymen’s Protective Association in the case.
Clammer Keith Craffey said the shutdown put him out of work between Halloween and Christmas in 2012.
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