by | May 6, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Restore America’s Estuaries, in conjunction with the American Sportfishing Association and NOAA Fisheries, released a report recently detailing the importance of marine habitats to Americas fisheries. The report explains (with easy to understand info-graphics)...
by Marshall Brown | May 1, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Coastalresilience.org is dedicated to preparing us for a future with more flooding. Seas are rising, storms are intensifying. Visit their site, read what they have to say about how we should prepare for this future — using natural defenses like marsh, eelgrass,...
by Artie Kopelman | Apr 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water
Not only are our coastal ecosystems affected by pollutants, climate change, habitat destruction, and political expediency, now another threat looms, namely seismic airgun testing. The testing is expected to kill over 130,000 marine mammals and sea turtles alone, if...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
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by Marshall Brown | Apr 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
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by Marshall Brown | Apr 30, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
Save The Great South Bay here presents two videos from two Facebook Group members. The first is from Dan Smith, an avid kayaker and Brookhaven resident, of what he (like many) refer to as The Old Inlet, but which others know as The New Inlet or The Breach. Call it...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 24, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Gareth Burghes is a former student in marine biology at Stony Brook University turned film maker. Through Lagomorph Films, the production company he founded, Gareth is winning spots at various film festivals with his “Filtering Futures: A Story of Long Island...
by John Hall | Apr 24, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Bugs that is, ladybugs. And what a message that should send. The management of the most well known mall in the nation has released more than seventy thousand ladybugs inside the mall in order to control pests on the tropical plants living there. Read: instead of using...
by Marshall Brown | Apr 24, 2013 | Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
Sean Bergin of New12 Long Island here tries his hand at being a bayman in his ongoing series “On The Job.” The segment concludes with some observations on the breach / New Inlet and how it is already affecting the bay. On The Job: Bayman ...
by Artie Kopelman | Apr 23, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats
I admit it; I am not a big fan of Earth Day. This aversion could stem from what happened to me on one of the first Earth Day celebrations in NYC in Central Park, when a large dog mistook my back as a tree stump and I was urinated upon; but, it doesn’t. My...
by | Apr 22, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
The American eel (Anguilla rostrata), is a catadromous species of fish, which means it lives in freshwater and then migrates to marine waters to spawn. These eels emigrate from riverine environments during their mature “silver eel” stage. They eventually make their...
