Long Island Fishermen losing patience with probe of state regulators. Commercial lobsterman Bob Zickmund on his boat, the Betty Ann pm March 21, 2012. Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams, Jr.

Two grants totaling $254,282 from the Fishing for Energy Fund and Long Island Sound Futures Fund will pay about 45 area lobstermen daily stipends to pull up the pots, many left there for decades.

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- There is a new plan on Long Island to prevent a repeat of last year's massive fish die-off. CBS2's Jennifer McLogan reported it involves bunker – a species of fish ...

Jake Rosenberg, a 23-year-old New York playwright, has written “Salt Water People,” which portrays the challenges, traditions and even dialect of Long Island’s fishermen.