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Oxygen Starved Talapia

Talapia were introduced and now are the only fish that survive in Salton Sea due to high salt content. Fertilizer runoff from farms leads to algae blooms, which bacteria eat consuming oxygen and causing massive fish die offs.

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Uploaded on February 18, 2011
Taken on September 16, 2009