The Dead Zone In The Gulf Of Mexico
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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The Gulf of Mexico marine life has trouble scavinging for oxygen to live within the area. The area is 5’052 square miles and lacks the normal amount of oxygen to sustain life. Its basically about the size of Connecticut.
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The gulf of mexico's dead zone was caused by nutrients washed into the Gulf’s waters mainly agriculuture fertilizer and wastewater traveling the Mississippi River. Eas animals such as shrimp and fish can leave the habitat to higher oxygen water but thr deep ocean floor for some sea creatures plays a role in their meals. So they eventually die. Their deaths hurt biodiversity making it even harder to get foos for fish and shrimp. The Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone is the world’s second largest contributed by humans.
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Researchers say that taling out some of the Gulf hypoxia is more than the cost that is possible for anyone to afford when economist have mafe good hypothesises for benefits and cost reserch for cleaning the dead zone has a cost out of range. To make things worse high prices for agriculutrual materials have farmers buying less for te crops giving advocates or the gulf one step ahead in the Gulf’s Hypoxia’s debate. Even though the fertilizer benefits the land it is defenatily negitivly affecting the oceans. Eventualy as food shortages lessen we can choose to change into a common sense step. By finding livestock in nutrient deficient crop areas, by running soil erosion to sustain long term soil health, also by lessening soil nitrogen defaulties or by fixing nitrogen rich runoff before it goes in riversp or streaks, we can as human successfully be able to have healthy costal waters and money making farms.
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