Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Expected to be Largest Ever; Louisiana to 'Bear the Burden' of its Effects
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Advocate] By Steve Hardy - July 17, 2017
Four generations of the Olander family have shrimped the coast of Louisiana, but now Thomas Olander, chairman of the Louisiana Shrimp Association, is trying to convince his own son to get out of the family business while he's still young as the Mississippi River spews poison into the Gulf of Mexico.
The shrimp are smaller, the young fish are dying off and the oysters have been beaten back. Crabbers say they're pulling up traps filled with dead crustaceans.
The technical, scientific phrase for what's going on is hypoxia: oxygen levels in the water unsupportive of most life. But everyone calls the hypoxic areas by a more grim name...
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