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...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 17, 2013 | Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
Michael certainly had a busy weekend.  He has for us and today’s breach report a video and a slide show of the dismantling of the Pattersquash Gunner’s Association Club House, which rested on Pelican Island until Sandy and The New Inlet washed her off the...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 13, 2013 | Bay Friendly Yards, Cleaner Water, Fixing Habitats
The ecological condition of Long Island’s ground water has reached a crisis point.  Year by year the algal blooms grow more intense and pervasive, with brown tides erasing more habitats, with contaminated waters closing more and more acres to shellfishing, and...
by Marshall Brown | Jun 12, 2013 | Fixing Habitats
Michael Busch of Great South Bay Images took this shot of The Pattersquash Gunner’s Association clubhouse, which sits right now in the middle of a system of shoals, sandbars, and channels that is the New Inlet. Â Â As you can see, much of the water is quite...