Margaret Kates | AL.com 21 August 2024 Patric Garmeson, a charter fishing captain, remembers “hundreds if not thousands” of dead bull redfish washed up in Bon Secour Bay in the spring of 2022. “When you set up a fishing trip, and then you realize that you’re in a dead zone, it can affect morale,” [...]

Doyle Rice | USA TODAY 1 August 2024 For decades, an oxygen-depleted "dead zone" that is harmful to sea life has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico in a region off Louisiana and Texas. This year, it's larger than average, federal scientists announced in a report out Thursday. The 2024 zone is about 6,705 [...]

Delaney Dryfoos | WWNO 2 August 2024 This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles, as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment [...]

Mark Schleifstein | NOLA.com 1 August 2024 The annual “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico along Louisiana’s coast – an area where low to no oxygen in the deepest water can kill fish and other marine life – covered 6,705 square miles this summer, the 12th largest measured during 38 years of annual cruises, federal [...]