Back to Baysics http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup Making our Great South Bay great again Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:27:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 en Who are you? http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/07/20/who-are-you/ http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/07/20/who-are-you/#comments Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:06:15 +0000 Back to Baysics http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/06/13/who-are-you/ Everyone has a story. Back to Baysics is an environmental awareness campaign that strives to increase motivation for residents to help keep our Great South Bay great while improving its quality. The beautiful waters of Long Island have given us so much. Why not return the favor! Find out what you can do to help restore and maintain the health of our Great South Bay so that you and your families can continue to enjoy all that it has to offer.

Who are you?
Speak up and show what living on the South Shore has done for you and your family.

]]> http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/07/20/who-are-you/feed/ The Sayville Opening http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/06/30/the-sayville-opening/ http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/06/30/the-sayville-opening/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:23:40 +0000 Back to Baysics http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/06/30/the-sayville-opening/ Back to Baysics will kick off Saturday, July 14 from 9:00–10:00 am, presented by the Sayville Inn. Join us for a continental breakfast and graphic design exhibition on reviving the Great South Bay. Then continue to enjoy the weekend by walking through downtown Sayville for more works, sidewalk sales, fine dining and the vintage boat show at West Sayville’s very own Maritime Museum. Hope to see you there!

]]> http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/06/30/the-sayville-opening/feed/ Where have all the shellfish gone? http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/04/01/hello-world/ http://www.backtobaysics.org/speakup/2007/04/01/hello-world/#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:35:00 +0000 admin Where have all the shellfish gone? In the closing days of the 19th Century, the streets of Sayville and West Sayville were paved not with gold, but with oyster shells. “America’s Friendliest Town” once reigned as the world’s largest producer and shipper of oysters. That famed Blue Point Oyster population was decimated by a combination of overharvesting, contaminated runoff and the Great Hurricane of 1938, but an abundance of hard clams ultimately replaced the oysters and brought droves of baymen back in the 1960s and 1970s. It was at this time when hard clams filtered 40% of the entire volume of the Great South Bay each day. Today, due to overfishing and continued pollution, there are only enough hard clams to filter 1% of this vast body of water each day. Shellfish act like the filter in an aquarium — they help keep the water clean. When shellfish aren’t there to filter the water, the quality can suffer for everyone and everything.

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