August 7, 2010
Graph of the Day: Pacific Coast Dead Zone, 2006 and 2007
Climate change affects coastal currents that moderate ocean temperatures and the productivity of ecosystems. As such, it is believed to be a factor in the low-oxygen “dead zone” that has appeared along the coast of Washington and Oregon in recent years. In the maps above, blue indicates low-oxygen areas and purple shows areas that are the most severely oxygen depleted.
I have lived and worked in Newport oregon.
As a matter of fact, i have lived on the Oregon coast for much of my life.
Google Coos Bay Oregon, it is a hundred miles South of Newport.
It used to be the biggest lumber exporting port in the world.
It also used to have a fishing fleet that would make Newport blush.All that is long gone. Weyehouser had a lumber mill that was over a fucking mile long.
Now one building is left and it is a casino owned by the Coos Indian tribe. My Grandfather worked in that mill for twenty five years. The fishing is long gone too. Over fishing caused the stocks to collapse.
The Dead zones in the article only point out there is no hope for any fishing recovery and that info is three years old, something we knew even then.