[img=http://www.striped-bass.com/Images/mohblock.jpg]
Check out that picture... All things about errosion and this fellas house aside, looks like a loss of some Block fishing access there. Thirty foot high cliffs will be pretty difficult to get around to fish ('course CowHunter would find a way)...
Here is a link to the article in the Providence Journal... http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/news/05288581.htm