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East End waters hit by brown tide again
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Once again, the waters of Moriches, Quantuck and Shinnecock bays have turned an opaque cocoa-brown - a telltale sign of the tiny but damaging alga known as brown tide. It first cropped up in Long Island waters 24 years ago, triggering a large die-off among the local bay scallop population. Since then, brown tide has returned regularly in early summer to the eastern bays along the South Shore, where...
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