NOAA Says Gulf of America ‘Dead Zone’ 30% Smaller than 2024
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NOAA Fisheries shared that the 2025 Gulf of America “dead zone,” an area of low to no oxygen that kills fish and marine life, is 21% smaller than estimates made in early June. The dead zone measured as the 15th smallest on record at 4,402 square miles.
This equates to roughly 2.8 million acres of habitat potentially unavailable to fish and bottom-dwelling species, a reduction of 30% from the previous year, per a NOAA Fisheries news release.
"This year's significant reduction in the Gulf of America's...
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