The Sound Is Dying

By bremarie823

  • July 15- July 19

    Animals started dying. Oxygen levels continued to fall. Emitted hydrogen sulfide from the Sounds bottom sediments.
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    Sound Is Dying

  • Algae Discovery

    Barbara Welsh finds algae

  • Manhasset Bay

    Lobsters, Fluke, Summer Flounder, Windowpane Flounder, Blackfish, Pipefish, Rock Crabs, Horseshoe Crabs, Lady Crabs, Mossbonkers, Eels, and Killifish died.

  • July 28- August 4

    Curtain of algae dies. Water becomes unusually clear. Oxygen levels collasped.

  • Hypoxia

    Hopoxia begins to spread up and out toward the shoals. Pockets of healthy water disappear.

  • Manhasset Bay

    Winter Flounder, Windowpane Flounder, and Rock Crabs were found floating on the surface. Off Sounds Point more than 500 lbs of lobster died in traps. Across the Sound in New Rochelle, all but 2 of 65 lobsters hauled to the surface were dead.

  • Northport- City Island

    Mossbonkers, Rock Crabs, and Winter Flounder suffocated in the waters near City Island. Traps pulled from 70 feet of water off Northport yielded dead crabs and lobsters.

  • Hempstead Harbor- Matinecock Point

    Hogchockers, Winter Flounder, Fluke, Eels, and Crabs died just east of the harbor's mouth. Lobsters, Crabs, and Blackfish were included in the fatalities off Matinecock Point.

  • Llyod Point

    More lobsters died.

  • Smithtown Bay

    More crabs died of suffocation in Smithtown Bay.