The scallop harvest in Peconic Bay on Suffolk County Long Island has failed, due to factors linked to climate change. Over three years , water temperatures reached the mid-C80s several times, a heat which scallops are unable to tolerate. Next Step , a shellfish ecologist who is leading a scallop restoration project in the area, says that the long-term collapse in stocks is due to high water temperatures, low oxygen levels and the summer of brown tide algal bloom in the late 1980s . Most of the adult scallops in Peconic Bay were dead. Tettelbach attributes the summer ’s failed harvest to human-induced climate change.
The scallop harvest in Peconic Bay on Suffolk County Long Island has failed, due to factors linked to climate change. Over three years , water temperatures reached the mid-C80s several times, a heat which scallops are unable to tolerate. Next Step , a shellfish ecologist who is leading a scallop restoration project in the area, says that the long-term collapse in stocks is due to high water temperatures, low oxygen levels and the summer of brown tide algal bloom in the late 1980s . Tettelbach attributes the summer ’s failed harvest to human-induced climate change.