Gulf Dead Zone for 2025 Announced Statement from Matt Rota, Senior Policy Director for Healthy Gulf
Matt Rota | Heathy Gulf 1 August 2025 New Orleans, LA–Today, the official size of the 2025 Gulf Dead Zone was announced by NOAA-supported scientists. This year’s dead zone measured approximately 4,402 square miles, almost the size of Connecticut. While this is not the largest Dead Zone we have seen, it is approximately over [...]