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Author: Rich
Website: http://www.earthpm.com/2010/02/hypoxia/
Have you ever heard of “hypoxia”? Perhaps you’ve heard of the more informal moniker: Dead Zones.
Should you be interested? Perhaps only if you eat. Have a look at this quote:
“More than 212,000 metric tons [235,000 tons] of food is lost to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico,” says marine biologist Robert Diaz of The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va., who surveyed the dead zones along with marine ecologist Rutger Rosenberg of the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. “That’s enough to feed 75 percent of the average brown shrimp harvest from the Louisiana gulf. If there was no hypoxia and there was that much more food, don’t you think the shrimp and crabs would be happier? They would certainly be fatter.”
Hypoxic, or “dead” zones, are becoming more prevalent, and may trigger projects to try to reduce their effect and/or prevent them from getting so severe. The Hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico, pictured above, is about the size of New Jersey. Although the basis for…
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