Bellport

The Fire Island inlet, created by Superstorm Sandy a decade ago, has closed, stopping the flow of water between the Atlantic Ocean and Bellport Bay. Brookhaven will now need to study its impacts and delay its expansion of shellfish restoration.

The Town of Brookhaven wants to double the size of a two-acre shellfish management area in Bellport Bay, and pause fishing there while young shellfish grow to maturity. But local baymen oppose.

Immediately after Superstorm Sandy, Long Island officials wanted the Army Corps of Engineers to close an inlet formed in Bellport on the Great South…