by Marshall Brown | Aug 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Education, Fixing Habitats
It has become the reflexive habit of news organizations to frame every news item as a conflict, a controversy.   Without that, there is no story.  You could be in a lecture hall for two and a half hours, listen to a panel, then have public statements from a crowd of...
by Marshall Brown | Jul 8, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Featured, Fixing Habitats, Shellfish
With all the heavy rains in June, a lot of our ground water, heavily polluted by septic tanks and sewage, has washed into The Great South Bay, sparking the brown tide. The New Inlet is thus far keeping the brown tide out of the Eastern Great South Bay and Moriches...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 20, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
That’s at least what fisherman and boatsman Peter Curto had to say, and he has the pictures to prove it: This slideshow requires...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 20, 2013 | Cleaner Water
Sez “Surf FireIsland”: “Epic fluke fishing happening in the bay right now. Thanks to new inlet for making the bay full of life again!” He’s got the picture to prove it!: Also stripers, blues, weakfish, blowfish in number and size this...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 18, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Seagrant ( a lot more on them below, from their site), offers an overview of the two most important topics affecting The Great South Bay and the Western Bays — The Breach / New Inlet, and The Crippling of The Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant By Hurricane...