The Village Beacon Record - May 21, 2015

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BEACON RECORD The Village

Mount Sinai • Miller Place • Sound Beach • rocky Point • ShorehaM • Wading river • leiSure country May 21, 2015

volume 30, no. 43

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Residents vote YES Mount Sinai

Miller Place

ALL PROPOSED BUDGETS PASS See your district’s results and school board election coverage on pages A3–5

Rocky Point

A day of reflection on Memorial Day also, Memorial Day parades on the North Shore; local actor lands lead in ‘Oliver!’ at Theatre Three

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PJ library looks to expand Seeks community input

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Town seeks to curb horseshoe crab harvesting By erika karP

With its horseshoe crab population dwindling, Town of Brookhaven officials are calling on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to ban harvesting within 500 feet of town property. At the Mount Sinai Harbor Marine Stewardship Center at Cedar Beach on Tuesday, Supervisor Ed Romaine (R) announced

the Brookhaven Town Board is poised to approve a message in support of the ban at Thursday night’s board meeting. Horseshoe crabs are harvested for bait and medicinal purposes, as their blue blood, which is worth an estimated $15,000 a quart, is used in the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries to detect bacterial contamination in drugs and medical supplies, due to its

Photos by erika Karp

top, an approximately 3- to 4-year-old horseshoe crab; above, Supervisor ed romaine and Brookhaven’s chief environmental analyst anthony graves.

special properties. While there is already a harvesting ban in place for Mount Sinai Harbor, Romaine is seek-

ing to expand the restriction across the North and South shores so the crabs have a safe CRaBS continued on page a10


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