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Chesapeake Dead Zones Impacting Local Fish, Ecosystem

2013-07-10 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Nature World News: Dead zones occurring in the Chesapeake Bay are disrupting the distribution and number of many of the area's fish, according to a 10-year study by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). As the first quantitative evidence on a bay-wide scale that these low-oxygen zones are impacting demersal fish (fish that live or feed near the bottom seafloor), the study warns that the affected species represent a key part of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and support important commercial...

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