The New Yorker, January 6, 1951 P. 36
PROFILE of N. Y. Harbor and what's in, and on and under the water; marine life in the harbor, bays and inlets; species of fish that enter the harbor, migrants and permanent dwellers such as the eel. Tells about the 1500 "baymen" who make a living at fishing and clam-digging; about clam-beds, and sunken wrecks, of wildlife in the marshes, and of people who come to the edge of the marshes to pick berries, flowers, and among them, Rabbis and elders who come to pick willow branches that are used in a rain ritual in orthodox synagogues in the city. Tells about fishing among the wrecks that lie at the bottom of harbor-approaches; a of dumping-grounds for excavations and town-down buildings. The man who has charge of enforcing the conservation laws relating to fish is Andrew E. Zimmer. Recounts a conversation with Leroy Pool, a man who's got "the bottom of the harbor" on his brain.
