The scallop harvest in Peconic Bay on New York ’s Long Island has failed , due to factors linked to climate change . This catastrophe, however, he attributes primarily to human-induced climate change. Over the summer , water temperatures reached the mid - C80s several times , a heat which scallops are unable to tolerate . David Tettelbach , 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 three years of brown tide algal bloom in the late 1980s . Tettelbach attributes this year ’s failed harvest to human - induced climate change .
The scallop harvest in Peconic Bay on New York ’s Long Island has failed , due to factors linked to climate change . Over the summer , water temperatures reached the mid - C80s several times , a heat which scallops are unable to tolerate . David Tettelbach , 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 three years of brown tide algal bloom in the late 1980s . Tettelbach attributes this year ’s failed harvest to human - induced climate change .