Raritan Bay Water

[mike1010]

Does anybody know what that scum is that is all over the bay, and where it is from?

[Gerry Zagorski]

Algea bloom
http://patch.com/new-jersey/middletown-nj/raritan-bay-blooms-brown-in-the-spring

[CCMPmonmouth]

Tell me the best spot I can get a sample from the shore and I will investigate.

[Capt. Debbie]

I thought Algae needed warm water? We sure dont have that. The article mentions 80 degree SST. Not this year at this time. Even 60's would be generously high now. Maybe in July?



Algea bloom
http://patch.com/new-jersey/middletown-nj/raritan-bay-blooms-brown-in-the-spring

[howarda780]

It looked like pollen to me.

[mike1010]

It looked like pollen to me.

I want to think so, but it looked like too much to me.

[mike1010]

Tell me the best spot I can get a sample from the shore and I will investigate.

It's all over the bay, maybe thicker in the west.

[Bass_Appeal]

it's staten islands doo doo ! the time of year were they flush their systems of all their b.s

[Art Berkman]

Pollen

[shrimpman steve]

Pollen

[Rocky]

Do you mean this?

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7676/17358456196_f684e81a89.jpg

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8856/17374407031_d7d3c2a526.jpg

[Gerry Zagorski]

The stuff on top could be pollen but the reason the water is so brown is the algea bloom. Read the article I linked to in my original post, it's happened the past few Aprils and all it takes is a few sunny for it to occur.