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Date Posted: 13:07:07 08/04/04 Wed
Author: BV
Subject: Dead Zone in US waters

A huge "dead zone" of water so devoid of oxygen that sea life cannot live in it has spread across the Gulf of Mexico in what has become an annual occurrence caused by pollution.

The 15,020 square kilometres of uninhabitable water may be contributing indirectly to an unusual spate of shark bites along the Texas coast, experts say.

A scientist at the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium said measurements showed the dead zone extended from the mouth of the Mississippi River in south-eastern Louisiana 400 km west to near the Texas border and was closer to shore than usual because winds and currents.

"Fish and swimming crabs escape [from the dead zone]," said Nancy Rabalais, the consortium's chief scientist for hypoxia, or low oxygen research.

"Anything else dies."

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