How to change fishing regulations for New York State? That was the question at a meeting on Saturday in Hampton Bays.
In attendance were commercial fishermen, Representative Tim Bishop, Peter Grannis, the commissioner of the State Department of Environmental Conservation, and Kit Kennedy, the deputy state attorney general.
Mr. Bishop did not sound hopeful afterward. “In an ideal world, we wouldn’t need litigation,” he said. “But we don’t live in an ideal world. I think a suit is inevitable,” he said on Tuesday morning while on his way to Washington, D.C.
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