NEW BEDFORD Last summer, you may have walked down to Pier 3, picked up a lobster roll or clam cakes from the city s new clam bar, The Whale s Tail, and enjoyed your meal while watching commercial fishing vessels maneuver around the port.
Whether that can happen again is up to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. The agency is currently reviewing the New Bedford Port Authority s application to change the authorized use of the 208-square-foot shed in which the clam bar sits from water-dependent, industrial use to restaurant use.
Edmund Coletta, press secretary for MassDEP, said in an email that the use of the shed for a restaurant has not been authorized and will not be authorized unless and until a license has been issued. Last summer, the clam bar operated without the necessary state authorization.
New Bedford Port Authority Probed by Feds Over Grant Application
A federal grant application submitted by the New Bedford Port Authority is the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Commerce Department s Office of the Inspector General, WBSM has learned.
The probe was initiated in October of 2020, according to Port Authority General Counsel Blair S. Bailey in correspondence with WBSM.
Bailey did not say if the investigation is continuing, or what findings, if any were rendered by the OIG. Another source confirmed that the probe is ongoing.
In responding to an inquiry by WBSM, Attorney Bailey issued the following statement:
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