§ 183-22. Areas protected from taking of shellfish.

A. 

Commercial. No commercial shell fisherman and no person to whom a commercial permit has been issued by the Town of Islip shall take shellfish in that part of the Town bounded as follows:

(1) 

On the east by the Islip Town line; on the south by Oak Beach; on the north by the general south shoreline of Captree Island and Seganic Thatch; and on the west by the westerly shoreline or end of the Oak Island Lead and extending on a line northerly to the south line of the State Channel.

(2) 

West Gilgo Beach Lagoon.

B. 

General. No person shall take shellfish in that part of the Town lying south of the State Channel between the shoreline of Oak Island and a line distant 100 feet from the mean shoreline of such island.

C. 

Exception. Anything herein to the contrary not withstanding, during the months of January and February of each year, the area known as the "Lead" between Oak Beach and Oak Island shall be opened to commercial fishermen for shellfishing, subject, however, to all other provisions of this chapter.