Gulf 'dead zone' suffocating fish and livelihoods

WiseOne · Aug 19, 2008

GULF OF MEXICO (CNN) -- Fisherman Terry Pizani turns his captain's wheel with a mournful expression on his face. Far below, the fishing grounds off the Louisiana coast where the 63-year-old has made a living for five decades have become an aquatic graveyard known as a "dead zone."

"You don't see nothing," he said. "Usually you see bait fish on the water. You don't see no bait fish, nothing. Nothing's there.

"I don't have no kind of testing material to test the water, but I know something's wrong."
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WiseOne's Comments, wow...there sure is something wrong with this world to be sure! WTH is going on these days? It is getting eerie now.

Lilbit · Aug 19, 2008

Another reason to find alternatives other than corn based ethanol. Also another reason to look at the way mother nature use to keep those areas so fertile back before man took over.

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