Did you know there's a massive "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico ... As a result, fish, shrimp and crabs can suffocate. “It's critical that we measure this region's hypoxia as an indicator ...

This year’s dead zone should be twice the usual size, Louisiana State oceanographers R. Eugene Turner and Nancy Rabalais wrote in “2017 Forecast: Summer Hypoxic Zone Size, Northern Gulf of Mexico ...

GULF OF MEXICO (CNN)-- Fisherman Terry ... an aquatic graveyard known as a "dead zone." "You don't see nothing," he said. "Usually you see bait fish on the water. You don't see no bait fish ...

1733-1750 (18 pages) The Louisiana Shelf in the Gulf of Mexico experiences recurrent bottom water hypoxia ... Nitrite accumulation in hypoxic zones remains understudied and may have important effects ...