Maritime glossary

Eutrophication

Also called dead zone, dead zones, hypoxic zone, algal bloom, harmful algal bloom

Excess nutrients, often from farm runoff or fish waste, that feed algal blooms which then decay and strip oxygen from the water, creating dead zones.

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Aquaculture and ocean food systems

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