Something fishy went down in a Long Island canal Monday morning.
Hampton Bays residents woke up to the less than one-mile long Shinnecock canal crammed with hundreds of thousands of Atlantic bunker fish.
“You could’ve walked across the water. It was covered with fish,” local resident Martin West told News 12.
The New York Department of Environmental Conversation said the canal locks shuttered around 3 a.m., trapping a massive school of the small saltwater fish that officials speculated were chased there by a school of hungry bluefish.
