A “dead zone” of low-or no- dissolved oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is roughly the size of New Jersey this year, researchers at Louisiana State University and the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium have found. Though it’s found in Louisiana, the “dead zone” has implications for fisheries along Alabama’s Gulf Coast.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” Bruno Piggott, acting assistant administrator for the Office of Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said in a press conference on the dead zone Thursday.