Dead fish washed up along miles of Texas’s Gulf Coast on Friday because of low oxygen levels in the water. Some fish are still surfacing.
While low oxygen levels cause fish to die every summer, a combination of warm water, calm seas and cloudy conditions left oxygen levels so low on Friday that it led to more dead fish than many officials had ever seen.
“By the time you get one stretch of it raked and cleaned off and pushed back, you look back and a whole new wave of them have come ashore,” said Bryan Frazier, director of the Brazoria County Parks Department. “So you’ve got to do it all over again.” Frazier said cold water can hold more oxygen than warm water, and temperatures reached as high as 92 degrees in Brazoria County on Friday, according to the National Weather Service. For menhaden — the silvery, roughly foot-long fish most affected Friday — living in temperatures above 70 degrees can be difficult, officials said. Frazier said it would be tough to determine how warm the water was because it’s unclear exactly where the fish died before surfacing.
creates oxygen, but a lack of sunlight the previous few days halted the energy-producing process, Frazier said.events happen almost every summer in Texas, officials said. The northern Gulf of Mexico forms one of the world’s largest “dead zones” of fish, according to theKatie St.
because they filter the water and serve as food for other fish. But St. Clair said fish in the Gulf are accustomed to adjusting and repopulating.While it’s uncertain whether climate change had an influence in last week’s case, scientists have said that temperature shifts could be
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