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Brown Tide - Long Island

Brown Tide. In early July 2000, scientists reported the earliest and most widespread outbreak of brown tide, Aureococcus anophagefferens, in more than a decade in Great South Bay, Long Island, NY. Baymen fear a possible disaster for shellfish. [Newsday Inc.]