Exclusive | Wall Street finance bros have found a bizarre new flex but its dividing one of the Hamptons oldest communities

A 300-pound tuna fish doesn’t care how much your house costs.And on the ocean, there are no VIP tables or name-dropping.As the offshore tuna season reaches its peak at Montauk, Long Island, a wave of Wall Street thrill-seekers, million-dollar sportfishing boats and first-time charter anglers are pouring into one of the East Coast’s oldest fishing communities.For generations, the only people who chased tuna were the ones whose lives revolved around the water.

Now these veteran anglers are begrudgingly sharing the beloved recreational sport of deep-water fishing for hard-fighting, giant and prized tuna fish with image-obsessed city slickers who only recently learned about the big game pursuit thanks to social media and reality TV.“A lot of these guys are millionaires, and they come out and catch fish,” Montauk-based commercial fish dealer Bryan Gosman, 53, told The Post.Among longtime commercial fishermen, Gosman said there’s an unspoken understanding: the new sport-fishing boom has changed the culture.“Commercial guys get irritated because it does affect the market of fish.They think sport fishing guys don’t take good care of the fish; it becomes performative,” he added.

“The picture is more important.”“They’re multi-millionaires; the $4,000 check they get for a fish doesn’t even matter.”The Montauk native doesn’t blame people for wanting to fish.His concern is what happens when a working waterfront becomes another Hamptons attraction — and social media fodder.The influx of recreational anglers hasn’t just changed who shows up at the dock but also the economics of it.The question of what happens to an insular community and who “gets to be a fisherman” stops being hypothetical when it is impacting the supply chain.As more sport fishermen obtain permits allowing them to sell part of their catch, the market shifts.

When dozens of recreational boats return with tuna on the same day, prices can fall, meaning profits fall for the ha...