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Norwalk resident urges review after commercial suction dredge clouds waters in Wilton Cove
Summary
Garrett Friedrichson, a Norwalk resident and former commercial fisherman, told the Norwalk Shellfish Commission that a large suction-dredge vessel worked in Wilton Cove in mid-October and left extensive turbidity that affected local fishing.
Garrett Friedrichson, a Norwalk resident and former commercial fisherman, told the Norwalk Shellfish Commission that a large commercial suction-dredge vessel worked in Wilton Cove in mid-October and left extensive turbidity that affected local fishing. “The effluent…was just unloading mud into the water,” Friedrichson said, and the result, he said, “was turning crystal clear Norwalk waters into mud for the rest of the fall.”
The comment came during the commission’s public-comment time; commissioners said they do not have…
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