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Notes: Harvests may Signal a Comeback for Scallops
· Daily limit of 10 bushels per person for commercial scallop fishing.
· In November opening of the scallop season has not always been so rewarding.
· 1985 toxic marine algae known as brown tide in the Peconic Bay’s
· but last year Baymen realized that the scallop might finally be making a comeback three time as much of that in 2007
· harvest is expected to be at least as good if not better
· scientist are trying to rebuild the scallop population
· scientist have released nearly five million scallops into Peconic bay waters
· scientist knew that the toxins in the brown tide, which turns the water coffee brown not allowing sunlight to get to the grass that the scallops nest in.
· perplexing is why the brown tide comes and goes it is because of the nitrogen in the groundwater
· he found that nitrogen levels in local groundwater had not changed in most places and had increased in some areas
· they are trying to figure out why the brown tide occurs when nitrogen levels are high.
· Scientist are estimating then the amount to tens of thousands of pounds compared to hundreds of thousand in 1970’s and 90’s
Response: Harvests may Signal a Comeback for Scallops
I believe that this article is very true because they will make a good comeback and the brown tides are going not happen so regularly. The daily limit 10 bushels per person for commercial scallop fishing that doesn’t sound like allot but it probably brought in a lot of money. The November opening of the scallop season has not always been so rewarding. Beginning in 1985, multiple toxic marine algae known as brown tide have decimated Peconic Bay’s scallop population. I am wondering why the red tides are destroying them. But now scientist has discovered that they finally might be making a comeback well that could be really good for the entire workers that work to get scallops. This year Harvest is expected to be at least as good as if not better. Scientist are trying to rebuild what was destroyed in 1985. They have released nearly five million scallops in to the bay’s waters. Scientist know that the toxins in brown tide, which turn the water a coffee brown this brown tide blocks the sunlight not allowing it to get to the eelgrass bed where the scallops nest. The reason why the brown tide comes and goes is because the nitrogen concentrations get higher at times. But I heard after testing nitrogen levels in the groundwater had not changed in most places and had increased in some areas. Scientist have come to a consistent that brown tide does occur when the nitrogen come in to the bay by groundwater. Scientist also predict that this year’s Peconic bay harvest will amount to tens of thousands of pounds, compared with the hundreds of thousands of pounds caught in the 1970s and early’ 80s. I hope that they an find a stop to the brown tides so the scallops can not be harmed and to bring more money in to the people who harvest them.