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Dead Zones: Those Not Highly Mobile Simply Die

"Fish and swimming crabs escape (from the dead zone). Anything else dies." - quote from Nancy Rabalais, the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium's chief scientist for hypoxia, or low oxygen, research. Statement referred to the huge dead zone off the entire Louisiana coast. Quote found at http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/26410/story.htm

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