From extensive water pollution, America has managed to create an environment that isn’t liveable for marine animal life. This has created short and long-term effects on the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico.
The hypoxic waters of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone are a short-term effect in its own. The waters in the gulf are perfect condition for phytoplankton blooms. As the conditions are good for the plankton, they grow in large number covering the surface providing food for algae. The remains of the plankton the algae have feasted on falls to the floor where they are consumed by bacteria. These bacteria are what cause the waters to turn hypoxic. The large amounts of bacteria that are now located in the water, consume all the oxygen therefore leaving …show more content…
The Gulf of Mexico is a key seafood location as is supplies the U.S 72% of their shrimp, 66% of oysters and 16% of commercial fish. With the number of sea life dropping, the seafood market with have a great economic impact on us. Prices and demands for seafood will rise considerably and many will lose their jobs.
More of a long-term effect is the overall condition of the environment. With layers of dead animals and sulfur-oxidising bacteria, that turns debris black, the overall location of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is becoming more polluted every day. If the polluting doesn’t stop sometime soon, within a few years the dead zone may become permanent and grow larger. This could gradually affect a wider range of marine animal life resulting in the life in our oceans to quickly plummet to small dwindling numbers. With no marine animal life, our ocean would become a wasteland filled with dead rotting animals and chemicals making our oceans a sore sight to see.
These short and long-term effects on the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone show to what extend the zone is actually having on the environment how it affect us in the long run as
The hypoxic waters of the Gulf of Mexico dead zone are a short-term effect in its own. The waters in the gulf are perfect condition for phytoplankton blooms. As the conditions are good for the plankton, they grow in large number covering the surface providing food for algae. The remains of the plankton the algae have feasted on falls to the floor where they are consumed by bacteria. These bacteria are what cause the waters to turn hypoxic. The large amounts of bacteria that are now located in the water, consume all the oxygen therefore leaving …show more content…
The Gulf of Mexico is a key seafood location as is supplies the U.S 72% of their shrimp, 66% of oysters and 16% of commercial fish. With the number of sea life dropping, the seafood market with have a great economic impact on us. Prices and demands for seafood will rise considerably and many will lose their jobs.
More of a long-term effect is the overall condition of the environment. With layers of dead animals and sulfur-oxidising bacteria, that turns debris black, the overall location of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is becoming more polluted every day. If the polluting doesn’t stop sometime soon, within a few years the dead zone may become permanent and grow larger. This could gradually affect a wider range of marine animal life resulting in the life in our oceans to quickly plummet to small dwindling numbers. With no marine animal life, our ocean would become a wasteland filled with dead rotting animals and chemicals making our oceans a sore sight to see.
These short and long-term effects on the ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone show to what extend the zone is actually having on the environment how it affect us in the long run as