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State to add Suffolk South Shore bays to cleanup list

The Great South Bay and several neighboring bays plagued by recurrent blooms of harmful brown tide algae will be added to a state list of "impaired" waters this week.

Their inclusion on the list could open up federal money for research and boost efforts to revive the region's decimated hard clam population. Numbers plummeted in the 1980s, largely due to overharvesting. Brown tide has hampered...

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