Ocean Dead Zone Off Oregon Dissipating
October 31, 2006
In this 2004 file photo provided by Oregon State University, Dungeness crabs are washed ashore along the Oregon coastline. A dead zone, which has reappeared off the Oregon Coast for the past five years, that killed fish, crabs and sea worms in an area the size of Rhode Island has dissipated with autumn's change in the weather, as expected. (AP Photo/Oregon State University, Elizabeth Gates)
(AP) -- An ocean dead zone off Oregon that killed fish, crabs and sea worms in an area bigger than Rhode Island last summer lasted nearly three times longer than any of its predecessors before dissipating with autumn's change in the weather, scientists said Monday.
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