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  1. November 13, 2025

    Judge Rejects NY Tribe's Bid To Revive Eel-Fishing Rights

    A New York federal judge won't reconsider a decision determining that members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation don't have aboriginal eel-fishing rights off Long Island free of state regulatory fees, saying their arguments lack merit and they can't point to any decisions or data that the court overlooked.

  2. November 07, 2025

    New York Tribe Looks To Reverse Fishing Rights Decision

    Members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation are asking a New York federal court to reconsider an order that determined they don't have state regulation-free fishing rights off the shores of Long Island, saying it failed to consider U.S. Supreme Court precedent that allows coexistence.

  3. October 03, 2025

    NY's Eel Fishing Limits Against Tribal Members Upheld

    A New York federal judge ruled Friday that tribal members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation do not have aboriginal rights to fish, free from state regulation, in Shinnecock Bay on the South Shore of Long Island.

  4. June 16, 2025

    NY Looks To End Long Island Tribal Fishing Rights Row

    New York officials have asked a federal judge to toss a long-standing dispute with the Shinnecock Indian Nation over fishing off of Long Island, arguing that tribal members have filed invalid claims to their purported rights to fish in waters at the town of Southampton.

  5. June 03, 2025

    Profs Back Shinnecock Tribe In Long Island Fishing Rights Suit

    A group of law and history professors have backed the Shinnecock Indian Nation in three tribal members' lawsuit claiming New York state and Suffolk County wrongly engaged in a pattern of criminal prosecutions against them for fishing in waters where they have aboriginal rights to fish.

  6. August 26, 2022

    2nd Circ. Revives Long Island Tribe's Fishing Rights Case

    The Second Circuit revived a suit in which three members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation seek to continue using the tribe's ancestral fishing grounds off Long Island, finding they brought a valid bid to stop New York state regulators from prosecuting them for that practice.

  7. February 17, 2021

    NY Beats Long Island Tribe Members In Fishing Rights Suit

    New York state's environmental agency dodged a lawsuit brought by members of a Long Island tribe alleging violation of their fishing rights and racial discrimination, after a federal court affirmed a magistrate judge's report. 

  8. June 24, 2020

    NY Says Shinnecock Rehashing Old Arguments In Fishing Suit

    A state agency has urged a New York federal court to reject recent arguments from members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation that "merely regurgitate" prior points in a case regarding their right to fish near the tribe's Long Island reservation.

  9. November 20, 2019

    NY Asserts Immunity To Tribal Fishing Rights Suit

    New York has told a federal judge that its sovereign immunity should defeat three Shinnecock Indian Nation members' suit claiming the state and a county have illegally prosecuted them for fishing near the tribe's Long Island reservation, while the tribe members argued that state officials aren't entitled to such protection.

  10. May 23, 2019

    NY Tribe Members Say High Court Backs Their Fishing Rights

    Three members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation who accuse New York state and Suffolk County of illegally prosecuting them for fishing near the tribe's Long Island reservation have urged a New York federal court to consider a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision they say supports their claims.