Crab Boat Fisherman on the Chesapeake Bay has an alarming discovery

“We're starting to see dead crab. Look at all this beautiful nice crabs. Dead. — Dead crabs, dead crabs, dead crabs”

“5 sewage treatment plants put hundreds of millions of gallons of wastewater into the bay every single day. This wastewater is full of nitrogen and phosphorus which causes algae blooms. When the algae dies, bacteria consumes the algae and also the oxygen in the water.

We get these huge dead zones in the bay. This year we had it all the way into five foot of water. It's killing crabs, it's killing fish, it wipes out the bottom. Oysters, clams, mussels, anything that can't run away and hide is killed because there's zero oxygen in the water.”

“When are we gonna do something about this?”