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===Smith Meal Fish Factory=== The Smith Meal Fish Factory in Promised Land was a plant that processed [[menhaden]] fish for [[fish meal]]. It was owned by Otis Smith and produced 20β30 million fish a year from June to October and had its own flag stop on the [[Long Island Rail Road]] for employees only. After a drop in the supply of menhaden, Smith closed the plant in 1969 along with plants at [[Lewes, Delaware]], and [[Crab Island, New Jersey]]. The plants were consolidated at [[Port Monmouth, New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Sherrill |first=E.L. III |title=Recalling Captain Norman |newspaper=The East Hampton Star |date=April 12, 2007 |url=http://www.easthamptonstar.com/DNN/Default.aspx?tabid=1896 |access-date=2009-08-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929125046/http://www.easthamptonstar.com/DNN/Default.aspx?tabid=1896 |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}</ref> Next to the Smith meal plant is a private marine finfish hatchery, Multi Aquaculture Systems, founded in 1976 by Dr. Robert J. Valenti, and a small restaurant.<ref>{{cite news |last=Rattiner |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Rattiner |title=Historic Napeague Chimney May Be Taken Down |newspaper=Dan's Papers |date=June 12, 2009 |url=http://www.danshamptons.com/content/danspapers/issue12_2009/07.html |access-date=2009-08-30 }}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The closed Smith Meal Fish Factory was sold to [[The Nature Conservancy]], who transferred it to the State Parks Commission. Napeague State Park was the subject of an ongoing court battle about whether it should be used as a dock for the [[Cross Sound Ferry]] for a car ferry service to [[New London, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Rattiner |first=Dan |author-link=Dan Rattiner |title=Rule Upheld: Car Ferry Nixed in East Hampton |newspaper=Dan's Papers |date=June 26, 2009 |url=http://www.danshamptons.com/content/danspapers/issue14_2009/08.html |access-date=2009-08-19 }}{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The park has been undeveloped since its transfer in 1986 and is home to a nesting colony of [[piping plover]] which will dictate its future use.
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