"hypoxic" events are now more likely to be the rule rather than the exception. (environment)

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"In this part of the marine environment, we may have crossed a tipping point,"

"Levels of oxygen in the summertime have suddenly become much lower than levels in the previous 50 years,"

"And 2006 broke all records, with parts of the shallow shelf actually becoming anoxic, meaning that they lacked oxygen altogether.

We've never seen that before."

"People keep asking us, 'Is this situation really all that different or not?'"


"Now we have the answer to that question, and it's an unequivocal 'yes.'

The low oxygen levels we've measured in the last six years are abnormally low for our system.

We haven't seen conditions like this in many, many decades, and now with varying intensity we've seen them in each of the last six summers."

Ocean Dead-Zones May Be Linked To Global Warming

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Creeping Dead Zones

Dead Waters: Science News Online, June 5, 2004

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Wind shifts devastate ocean life
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[User 2]

Alaska king salmon have historically typically fed in and around these areas, and have yearly migrated through these same areas which are now identified as dead zones.



The fact that they are appearing in many places in the worlds oceans, and are getting larger with each passing year is very troubling for the future of fish stocks we just happen to rely on......

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