06.09.2017 Outdoors Have we avoided yet another bunker kill? The rainy, cooler weather of late may have a silver lining: It may have helped prevent a repeat of the bunker fish kill that occurred in the Peconic Estuary...
05.27.2016 Environment Riverhead, Southampton to split costs for bunker removal There is peace again in bunker-ville. After Riverhead Town officials publicly criticized neighboring Southampton Town last week for not agreeing to contribute to the cost of removing bunker fish...
05.19.2016 Environment Fishermen remove 200,000 pounds of bunker to prevent fish kill Riverhead Town and the state Department of Environmental Conservation are each contributing two cents per pound to subsidize fishermen hired to haul bunker fish out of the Peconic Bay...
05.12.2016 Environment Underwater video shows Peconic River fish struggling to get oxygen Hundreds of bunker, their mouths yawning open as they gape for oxygenated water and to clean their gills, were filmed swimming in the Peconic River Wednesday. It’s a sign...
04.16.2016 Columns Column: More fish kills are coming … so says one researcher Here’s a prediction you’ll probably hope is wrong. A marine researcher from Molloy College in Rockville Centre is predicting that a massive fish and turtle kill will occur in...
12.23.2015 News Top Stories 2015: Fish die-offs clog the Peconic Estuary North Fork beaches had some less-than-ideal visitors this summer: thousands of dead bunker fish.
06.20.2015 Government Lawmakers call for additional resources to help combat fish kills Their backs facing the mouth of the Peconic River, town and county officials gathered outdoors Saturday for a press conference at the Riverhead Yacht Club, where they called upon...
06.15.2015 Environment Another month, another fish kill in the Peconic River Word of thousands of dead fish washing up on local shores might seem like old news at this point, but another drop in oxygen levels in local waters, coupled with a...
