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Report: State gets C+ in Sound management

Damith Hernandez, of Shoreham, fishes for striped bass

Photo credit: Mahala Gaylord | Damith Hernandez, of Shoreham, fishes for striped bass on the Long Island Sound at the Wading River town beach. (Dec. 04, 2009)

State efforts to improve the health of Long Island Sound get an average overall grade of C+ in an environmental group's first "report card" on protecting the waterway.

The report, released Wednesday by the Connecticut Fund for the Environment's Save the Sound program, reported an A grade for protection and restoration of coastal habitat and an A- for migratory habitat.

The group offered...

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