Fertilizer Run-off From Agricultural Activities Blamed For Gulf ...

Courtesy ScienceDaily  Thu, 04/24/2008 - 06:00

Improved management of crops and perennials could go a long way toward alleviating the problem of hypoxia, which claims thousands of fish, shrimp and shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico each spring.

The problem is caused in part by fertilizer run-off from agricultural activities in the Mississippi basin, which drains about 48 percent of the U.S. land.

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