Explaining a fish kill

Started by Kenny · Sep 17, 2010 · 1 replies

Kenny Sep 17, 2010 at 11:24 AM #1

Explaining a fish kill...http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/09/16/5123239-explaining-a-fish-kill Also, watch the video after this first one if you're interested in the spill, and how their still working on the site, and what their trying to do.

Last edited: Sep 17, 2010 at 11:39 AM

Stuart Sep 17, 2010 at 4:32 PM #2

Yep... that's what happens when you've got water with no oxygen in it. In fact, there is an entire dead zone that forms around the mouth of the Miss. river every year -- and keeps getting bigger and bigger. Nothing to do with the oil spill at all; everything to do with all the fertilizers and such that flow into the Miss. and out into the sea, causing a huge algae bloom that depletes every bit of available oxygen from the water.