06.09.2017 Outdoors Have we avoided yet another bunker kill? The rainy, cooler weather of late may have a silver lining: It may have helped prevent a repeat of the bunker fish kill that occurred in the Peconic Estuary...
05.12.2016 Environment Underwater video points to Peconic fish kill on the horizon Hundreds of bunker, their mouths yawning open as they gape for oxygenated water and to clean their gills, were filmed swimming in the Peconic River Wednesday. It’s a sign...
04.16.2016 Columns Column: More fish kills are coming … so says one researcher Here’s a prediction you’ll probably hope is wrong. A marine researcher from Molloy College in Rockville Centre is predicting that a massive fish and turtle kill will occur in...
02.10.2016 Environment DEC: Fish kills may ‘continue to be the norm’ An official study of last summer’s fish kills in the Peconic River, which were attributed to a variety of factors, confirmed that the biggest culprit was nitrogen-fed algal blooms,...
06.15.2015 Environment Another month, another fish kill in the Peconic River Word of thousands of dead fish washing up on local shores might seem like old news at this point, but another drop in oxygen levels in local waters, coupled with a...
06.13.2015 Editorials Editorial: Something must be done about nitrogen in our waters We’ve been reminded a lot in recent weeks that fish kills are a regular occurrence in these parts, and aren’t anything new. These comments are being made mostly to...
06.12.2015 Environment County assembles panel to discuss die-off of fish and turtles County lawmakers, scientists and environmentalists acknowledge nitrogen overloading in local waterways is the biggest contributor to the recent die-off of fish and turtles. They also agree aging septic tanks...
06.06.2015 Columns Column: People are to blame, not bluefish Over the past several weeks, the East End’s waterways have been inundated with toxic red and mahogany tides resulting in die-offs of diamondback terrapin (turtles), bunker and alewives. Our...
06.01.2015 Environment Hundreds of dead fish now washing up in Southold Town Bunker fish lined the bay shores of Southold Town Sunday morning, days after the latest massive fish kill reports in Riverhead and Southampton towns.
05.30.2015 Environment Riverhead Town scrambling to fix ‘critical’ situation as fish die off A recent die-off of bait fish in the Peconic Estuary has Riverhead Town rallying local fishermen to harvest as many bunker as they can before the fish die, according to Supervisor Sean...
