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there are different concepts in restoration you know the idea of
restoration is that we are going to restore the bay back to some previous
point right? And usually that previous point is a bias of the person
the Baymen are the canary in a coal mine if you see hundreds of guys out there fishing
and clamming the bays are doing well if you see one or two guys we're in trouble
an industry in this town that employed about 175 people now employs 20
There really is a nitrogen smoking gun to the brown tides and red tides that we're
having not only in Great South Bay but in western Shinnecock Bay and in North
Port Harbor and in Peconic Bay
which one gets the priority? Are we gonna put environment as the number one cause
or do we recognize that, you know
the role that humans have, what niche do they fill in the environment? Because
ultimately if you look at a Baymen you could argue
the predator prey, the clams being the prey. Should we be protecting the prey..
should we be protecting the predator...
we're all... You can argue both of them are endangered species