Summary: June 09 2007 10 17PM Every late spring it forms 12 miles off the Louisiana coast and lasts for months a sprawling lifeless band of water known as the dead zone Click to see How the Dead Zone Forms graphic Shrimp trawlers steer clear knowing the low oxygen in this part of the Gulf of Mexico makes it uninhabitable for fish and other marine life It
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