The two men who might have known how the tired old clam boat made its way from the Great South Bay to Florida's Gulf Coast are dead. Clarkson "Ollie" Richter built it and about 50 more in Babylon ...

Brookhaven Town's biennial survey of shellfish in the western portion of the Great South Bay found few reproducing clams, raising concerns about continued degradation of the marine environment.

The U.S. House of Representatives Nov. 14 passed a measure that includes $250,000 for research to assist the hard clam commercial fishing industry on the Great South Bay in the 2002 federal budget.

An intense and damaging brown tide has surfaced in the Great South Bay, and it could devastate the young clam beds within the water. Dr. Chris Gobler says brown tide is back for the first time in ...