Chesapeake Bay "dead zone" particularly bad this August affecting fish and crabs
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [WTOP] - August 27, 2014 -
WASHINGTON, It's called the dead zone and while it happens every year in the Chesapeake Bay, this August it's particularly bad, affecting fish and shellfish that make their way to dinner tables.
Bruce Michael, with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, monitors oxygen levels in the bay year-round; he says this summer's annual dead zone has grown to the eighth-largest size ever recorded.
It starts each year with a spring algae bloom.
It sucks the oxygen out of the deepest parts of the bay, making it difficult for fish and shellfish to survive.
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