Pfiesteria and Harmful Algal Blooms in the Mid-Atlantic: New York

New York Pfiesteria Contacts

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/marine/estmgmt.htm

Information about an algal bloom known as the Brown Tide has wiped out bay scallop populations and the economically important fishery associated with them in the Peconic Estuary. Brown Tide also has adverse effects on other species of shellfish like quahogs and soft shell clams.

New York Sea Grant

Brown Tide Research Initiative
www.seagrant.sunysb.edu/BTRI/btri.htm

A regularly published newsletter documenting scientific findings and results of the Brown Tide Research Initiative, a multi-year program of over a half-dozen research projects that are jointly-funded by NYSG and NOAA's Coastal Ocean Program.