When my wife and I recently passed through Western Long Island Sound near City Island on a recent Saturday morning, we saw dozens of fishing boats — large and small, including at least three kayaks outfitted for fishing. I recall a couple of decades ago when the western sound was so depleted of oxygen by algae blooms that fish couldn’t survive. There were no fish to be caught, and if there had been fish, the range of pollutants in the water might not have made them appealing to catch and eat.
Likewise, when we picked up the launch to go out to the boat in Oyster Bay the night before, I was amazed to see a large school of bluefish swarming right off the dock. Menhaden, also known as bunker, have returned to the Sound and to Oyster Bay with a vengeance and the bluefish are feasting. So too are the humpback whales, which have returned to Long Island Sound for the first time in two decades.
Recently, at a conference titled “Orchestrating Both Coasts for a Better Sound 2.0,” held at the US Merchant Marine Academy at King’s Point, officials from both sides of the Sound celebrated the progress which has been made and called for more to be done.
A year ago last March, marine archeologists determined that the wreck of a ship found off the coast of Oman was the Esmerelda, one of the ships in a fleet led by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1502. The wreck was discovered in 1998, but excavation didn’t begin until 2013, and since then, researchers have recovered more than 2,800 coins and artifacts. One of the more interesting artifacts is a 
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A fleet of seven teams of racers set off this morning from Alicante, Spain bound for Lisbon, on the first leg of the 
Part of one of 
His name is Rimas Meleshyus. He recently showed up adrift on his 30-foot sailboat, Mimsy, off 
The 2017 Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race turned out to be a great race indeed. The 
The 200′ long three-masted square-rigger
The first autonomous container ship, the 120 TEU feeder vessel, 
In March of 2018, the barque 
As one who is very fond of oyster-flavored oysters, I am not sure that a raspberry, ginger, shallot or muscat flavored oyster is necessarily a good idea. Nevertheless, French oyster farmer Joffrey Dubault, 29, is working to bring these 
I had kind of lost track of the replica Revolutionary War sloop Providence. In January 2015, 
A new study released this week suggests that 
Yacht designer, boatbuilder, and entrepreneur George Cuthberston died on October 3, age 88. Cuthbertson was one of the founders of the Canadian yacht builder,