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Author Analytic: CENR
Title Analytic: An Assessment of Coastal Hypoxia and Eutrophication in U.S. Waters
Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.
Publisher Name: National Science and Technology Council Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
Date of Publication: 2003
 Location URL: http://coastalscience.noaa.gov/documents/coastalhypoxia.pdf
Keywords: Pollution/Nutrients/Hypoxia, Estuaries
Stressor: pollution
Ecosystem: estuaries
 Availability: nccos.pubs@noaa.gov
Type: Report
 Abstract: The activities undertaken to develop this Assessment have been conducted under the auspices of the National Science and Technology Council’s Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (CENR). The report responds to Congresses call for an “Assessment of Hypoxia” as described in the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 (“HABHRCA,” Title VI of P.L. 105 383, section 604(b)). The Assessment examines “the ecological and economic consequences of hypoxia in United States coastal waters; alternatives for reducing, mitigating, and controlling hypoxia; and the social and economic costs and benefits of such alternatives.” Congress passed this legislation in the face of increasing frequency and intensity of outbreaks of harmful algal blooms (HABs). The Assessment further supports initial Congressional findings that a significant factor causing or contributing to HABs may include excessive nutrients in coastal waters, and also, that HABs and blooms of non-toxic algal species may lead to other damaging marine conditions, such as hypoxia (reduced oxygen concentrations), which are harmful or fatal to fish, shellfish, and benthic organisms.
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