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Gulf of Mexico’s ‘Dead Zone’ Largest on Record

July 16, 2008

U.S. researchers have forecasted that this summer’s “dead zone” off the coast of Louisiana and Texas in the Gulf of Mexico will be the largest ever recorded.

A team of scientists from Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Louisiana State University (LSU), who are supported by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) say the zone will cover an area of 8,800 square miles or roughly the size of New Jersey, said an NOAA release.

The dead zone is where there is a lack of life in bottom or near bottom waters caused by seasonal oxygen levels which drop too low to support most sea life. It is caused by an excess of nutrients from fertilizers and other sources which stimulate an overgrowth of algae which sinks and decomposes and robs the seawater of its oxygen.

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