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more hypoxia, creating a positive feedback loop (Scheer, 2011). In these dead zones, the water heats up, in about 95% of the time, the water can heat up by 3.6° Fahrenheit (Zielinski, 2014). Which makes the area even closer to being uninhabitable. Because of the lack of biodiversity, algae, has the ability to bloom freely, some of which, can be toxic and deadly(Bryant, 2015).
385 square miles of hypoxia costed more than $500 million and 83,000 tons of fish, which would mean higher prices on fish or any other seafood products for consumers (Biello,2008). Ocean dead zones do not only affect the water, but the entire planet.
What are its effects?
Ocean hypoxia creates low oxygen levels, which makes the animals suffocate, and die. Once they decompose they release more nitrous and phosphate, which creates