- Jeff,
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- The situation in the Great South Bay, a very sensitive
ecological area, is grave. There is still NO mention of any of this in
the press.
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- Sadly, I submit the following...
Patty
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- Blue Claw Crabs Turning Up Dead In Great South
Bay
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- From Fish Unlimited www.fishunlimited.org
8-29-00
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- Areas Are Adjacent to Marshes Where Mosquito Spraying
Has Taken Place
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- New York, NY - The environmental organization FISH Unlimited
announced today that large amounts of blue claw crabs have begun turning
up dead in Great South Bay in shallow water areas adjacent to the marshes
in Mastic and Shirley where mosquito spraying by Suffolk County Vector
Control has been taking place for over a month.
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- "We've received calls from two crabbers and a lobsterman
who alerted us to the die off in these areas, and who are supplying us
with a number of dead crabs to be tested for pesticide poisoning",
said Bill Smith, Executive Director of FISH Unlimited. "Like the lobster
deaths in Long Island Sound, this is not a coincidence."
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- FISH Unlimited has been critical of pesticide spraying
in areas close to estuaries since September 1999 when they first raised
the issue of a relationship between the massive spraying in New York and
Connecticut and the lobster die off that occurred shortly after. Videos
of experiments with lobsters and low levels of pesticides in controlled
environments done by The Lobster Institute of Oreno, Maine for FISH Unlimited
will be made public shortly. Also data from testing done on dead lobsters
taken from Western Long Island Sound last October is scheduled to be released
shortly by the environmental group.
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- "It appears that Suffolk County Vector Control has
now poisoned Great South Bay", Smith continued. "Last year it
was the crabs that died first in Western Long Island Sound, then the lobsters."
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- Suffolk County has been spraying massive amounts of the
pesticides Resmethrin and Sumethrin in the marshes around the Mastic/Shirley
for over a month. Both pesticides are known to be extremely deadly to marine
life and are banned in countries such as the United Kingdom for that reason.
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- "We were having one of the best years we've had
in 20 years until the spraying started," said Steve Kelly a crabber
from Brookhaven, New York. "Then all of a sudden, right after the
spraying started, crabs started turning up dead like we've never seen before."
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- FISH Unlimited will be sending the crabs for tissue sampling,
and additionally has taken a number of grab samples of water and sediment
around the shallow water marsh areas that also will be analyzed for pesticide
levels.
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- "It appears that we did not learn our lesson from
DDT", Smith said. "The massive pesticide spraying of 1999 and
2000 is truly a sad chapter in our history, and one that will be looked
back on with disgust by future generations."
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- For more information contact FISH Unlimited at 631-749-3474
or 516-639-5874.
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- FISH Unlimited - A Leader in Fisheries Conservation 1
Brander Parkway Box 1073 Shelter Island, NY 11965 631-749-3474 - p 631-749-3476
- f fish@fishunlimited.org www.fishunlimited.org _____
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- From Patricia Doyle labgal_5@yahoo.com
8-29-00
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- Jeff,
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- This should give you some background of the situation.
Oily substance covering the water and bad smell, etc.
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- Patty
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- From CAVEGRL777@aol.com 8-28-00 To labgal_5@yahoo.com
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- I spoke with Bill Smith (they collected many samples
of crabs), he says the die-off is definitely pesticide related. He went
out and spoke with the crabbers and there is an oily substance covering
the water and a bad smell. The PBO is oily.
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- He says Fish and Wildlife are going to get involved and
do some testing as well, and he is having them tested by someone else.
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- Says the fish I collected are probably BUNKER and may
not be pesticide related. He and crabbers are going to Smith Point to take
sediment and water samples on Wednesday. That area was heavily sprayed
with pyrethroids. I will probably meet them there and stop off in Oakdale
again on my way back. Media will be there as well.
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- What a shame this all is. Theo Colburn was right "Our
Stolen Future"
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- Donna
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