Photo of the Week

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Little marine life can survive in the Gulf of Mexico’s seasonal hypoxic (low-oxygen) “dead zones.” This shark-eye snail was an exception.

July 10, 2018
A lone denizen of the Dead Zone: a shark eye snail, Neverita duplicata.

Photo: Angela Hung

A major pollutant in the Gulf is sourced from industrial agriculture practices from as far away as Illinois and the rest of the Midwest farm belt. Fertilizer and pesticides enter local rivers that find their way to the Mississippi River which carries contaminants into the Gulf of Mexico. We have reached the Gulf’s “Dead Zone”, yielding a few tiny catches. Station W1601 may have given the smallest catch ever—a clump of seaweed and a whole shrimp.
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