"The summertime low-oxygen "dead zone" along Louisiana's Gulf Coast is dramatically smaller in 2018 -- 2,720 square miles, or the size of the state of Delaware -- a team of researchers announced Tuesday (July 31).
That's the fourth smallest dead zone since 1985, but it's still 50 percent larger than a target size set in 2008 by a federal task force concerned about the effects of hypoxia -- oxygen levels of 2 parts per million or less in water -- on Gulf fisheries.
The findings were announced by researchers from Louisiana State University, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and NOAA."
Mark Schleifstein reports for the New Orleans Times-Picayune July 31, 2018.
Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune, 08/01/2018
