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Tag: Fish kill

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...

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