How Chemicals and the Menhaden Affect the Chesapeake Bay

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For the purposes of this paper primarily dead zones caused by an algae bloom will be discussed. Algae blooms are primarily caused by an over abundance of nitrogen in the area. Nitrogen comes into a bay or an estuary through run off from homes and farms that use the nitrogen as a fertilizer...
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Nitrogen can also arrive by means of raw sewage. The nitrogen in conjunction with a run off of fresh water causes the phytoplankton to grow exponentially. The growth causes increased algae blooms which the menhaden are attracted to, the algae being their main source of food...
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