Blue Ocean Dead Zone

Dead Zones are a big issue appearing around the world in the late 20th century. It had start to destroy ecosystems, species, and local economies. Dead Zones are areas in bodies of water,like rivers and lakes, which lack oxygen level to support marine life. This obviously depletes the amount of marine life due to the limited oxygen resources. This is due to the increase of algae life that surrounds their areas. The algae consumes the oxygen in the water to support themselves. While this is going on, they are reproducing at a high rate due to a excess of nitrogen flowing out into the water. The nitrogen and phosphorus promotes a finite resources to the algae which causes a population explosion. Most of the nitrogen and phosphorus come from agriculture products, natural processes, and sewage pipes leading …show more content…
While these products have other byproducts, the increase of algae poses a huge problem in coastline ecosystems. Areas like the Chesapeake Bay, Black Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and ect around the world had these dead zones. Although some of these areas like the Black Sea had recover, Dead Zones will appear as the need of food products and increase of biowaste grows in an exponential height. To help heal these damaged areas, organization had “cleaned” the biowaste in the bodies of water. These organization had help alleviate the dead zone problem in …show more content…
A study conducted by the NOAA in the Gulf of Mexico had observed the hypoxia in the area. Hypoxia is the areas in the water that is unsustainable to obtain life. The hypoxia have low 2-3%ppm dissolved oxygen in water. Caused by many factor in the Gulf of Mexico. There was two stations that observe there to gain the data needed to understand dead zones in the gulf. Station C6B 1989 to 1997 that showed a decline of in the months leading to the summer had a higher conservation in the beginning of the 1990s decade. Indicating that the dissolved oxygen is growing more diluted and least