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In the case of Western Long Island Sound ... come August, with the heavy rains, local sewage systems overflow and spill into the water ... causing massive algae blooms ... which in turn causes a huge depletion of oxygen that basically kills every thing in the sound ... lobster traps come up with dead lobsters ... it was a huge problem ... scientists tracked it up past Bridgeport ... but I have not lived there in more than a decade ... but it was always a problem ...
... the effect on the fishing was that the fish disappeared when the oxygen levels started to drop ...
... so wouldn't say that it was the cause of the huge fish kills that happened in the harbors, because we experienced many of them first hand ... but the warmer water with depleted levels of oxygen could definitely add to plight of the pogies ... oxygen levels in the warmer waters are lower and when the pogies are jammed up into the harbors fin to fin, they are toast ...
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