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Harvesting oysters in Chesapeake Bay

The depletion of oysters in Chesapeake Bay caused the ecosystem to collapse. Chesapeake Bay now has many kilometres of dead zones – hypoxic (low-oxygen) areas where marine life dies or leaves the area.
Rights: Chesapeake Bay Program, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic
Published: 11 January 2012Size: 183.08 KB