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Editorial: Gulf’s ‘dead zone’ remains a quiet catastrophe

Por: The Advocate Opinion January 10, 2024

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It has been almost three decades since this newspaper’s reporting first shone a spotlight on the crisis in our fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico. Part of that 1996 series described the effects of the that forms each year off the Louisiana coast, sapping the waters of oxygen and creating widespread areas where organisms that fish feed on cannot live. At the time, researchers had just begun to study the causes of the dead zone and what needed to... + full article



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