Sri Lanka’s Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) calls countries on the Bay of Bengal to implement stricter laws against polluting the oceans. It noted that a ‘dead zone’ had formed in the centre of the Bay of Bengal.
As MEPA General Manager PB Teney reported in Xinhua, the authorities found out a dead-zone formation in the Bay of Bengal which has expanded in an area of 6,000 sqkm ans was between 100 metres and 400 metres in depth.
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In addition, the dead zone was located east of India, north east of Sri Lanka, south of Bangladesh and west of Thailand, Indonesia and Myanmar.
Teney addressed that the reason for the formation of the dead zone was the overall ocean pollution that keeps increasing because of the dumping of polythene, plastic, other non-degradable pollutants and chemicals, all of which were flowing from these countries.
Concluding, Teney noted
The dead zone which is forming in the centre of the Bay of Bengal will affect the five countries surrounding it, because if this dead zone expands it will lead to a further destruction in marine life and hamper the fisheries and tourism sectors of these countries.
