Moriches Bay a lagoon system on the south shore of Long Island.

Two Townships both Brookhaven and the Southampton share Its shoreline in Suffolk New York.

Moriches Bay is east of the the Mastic narrows and Great South Bay and west of Shinnecock Bay. The bay is 62 miles east of New York City.

Moriches Bay has a body of water of 3,836-hectare - 9,480-acre of aquatic environment.

This incudes Moneybogue Bay and Quantuck Bay, its salt marshes, dredged material islands, and intertidal flats.

This body of water is between the Outer barrier islands and Long Island mainland. It's flow comes from the Moriches and Shinnecock Inlets)

The western boundary of this bay is the Smith Point Bridge; the eastern boundary is the eastern edge of Quantuck Bay.

This bayside habitat includes the tidal creeks and marshes feeding into Moriches Bay from the Long Island mainland.

A thriving habitat off the Atlantic ocean, the Moriches Bay is used by Long Islanders for local fishing.It is a natural habitat for shellfish, migrating and wintering waterfowl, colonial nesting waterbirds, beach-nesting birds, migratory shorebirds, raptors, and rare plants.

See also

• Outer Barrier
• Moriches Inlet
• Patchogue Bay
• Suffolk NY

References

• http://training.fws.gov/library/pubs5/web_link/text/mb_form.htm
• http://www.sillylily.com/fishingpage2.html
• http://www.lifishingreports.com/forums/forumid_15/tt.htm
• http://www.panix.com/~pg/flyfishing/mbayprim.html