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Scientists say that a toxic species of algae known as red tide, for the color it stains the water when it blooms, has appeared on the East End in recent weeks throughout the Peconic Bay system as far east as Orient and in eastern Shinnecock Bay. It appears to still be spreading.
The red tide algae cells are toxic and are known to be fatal to both fish and shellfish, killing some species even faster than the devastating algae blooms dubbed the “brown tide,” which wiped out East End shellfish stocks in the 1980s and 1990s. Red tide has been blamed for a massive die-off of soft clams in Flanders Bay in 2005.
“It’s a pretty lethal bug,” said Chris Gobler Ph.D., a marine sciences professor at Stony Brook Southampton. “This thing... more
The red tide algae cells are toxic and are known to be fatal to both fish and shellfish, killing some species even faster than the devastating algae blooms dubbed the “brown tide,” which wiped out East End shellfish stocks in the 1980s and 1990s. Red tide has been blamed for a massive die-off of soft clams in Flanders Bay in 2005.
“It’s a pretty lethal bug,” said Chris Gobler Ph.D., a marine sciences professor at Stony Brook Southampton. “This thing... more
