Massive fish kill in LA dead zone
Sounds like a movie title, huh? The pic you see isn’t some hillbilly gravel road - it’s a marine waterway chocked with dead marine life – result of the persistent de-oxygenated ‘dead zone’ around the Mississippi mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. Mostly this zone results from the run-off of fertilizers from our massively over-fertilized and massively subsidized agribusiness farms in our country’s bloated midsection. But it was perhaps exacerbated by microbial activity as the little critters use up the extra oxygen to break down all that oil from the BP disaster.
Another day, another ecological nightmare, huh? And all so very preventable.
*Update 9/27/10* Continuing fish die-offs in and around the Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.
carcass of a fish leaks oil when poked. yum!
Stumble it!
Tags: agribusiness, BP Oil Spill, de-oxygenation, dead zone, fertilizers
September 16th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Glenn Beck will walk on top of the dead fish and claim he can walk on water. But not to position himself as a messiah, no siree.