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LONG ISLAND, NY This year s brown tide in the Great South Bay is the worst since 2017, scientists at Stony Brook University say. The brown tide cell counts from the brown tide alga were found at high densities between Sayville and Bellport, at levels harmful to marine life, especially hard clams that reproduce in June.
Brown tides have been commonplace off the South Shore of Long Island since the mid-1980s, created by nitrogen runoff from lawns as well as septic tanks. The Peconic estuary once experienced similar harmful brown tides but has been free from them since 1995.
Christopher Gobler is the Chair of Coastal Ecology and Conservation in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook.