National Wildlife, June 1st, 1999
A so-called 'dead zone' has appeared in the Gulf on Mexico on a regular basis, but the zone has been growing in size. The oxygen-depleted water, in which no fish can live, apparently is caused by pollution that is washed into the gulf and mixed with the warm, slow moving water.
With dead creatures at its bottom and survivors fleeing its edges, an annual dead zone spooks fishermen and challenges scientists
Just south of Whiskey Pass, where the last of Louisiana's barrier islands gives way to open sea, Gene Foret cuts the throttle and eases his boat across an unseen boundary. All around him th...
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