Eutrophic

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Recreation

Fishing

Highly fertile waters characterized by warm, nutrient-rich shallow basins.

Science

Water

Nutrient enrichment of a body of water that contains more organic matter than existing biological oxidization processes can consume. A body of water which has become, either naturally or by pollution, rich in nutrients and often seasonally deficient in dissolved oxygen. Reservoirs and lakes which are rich in nutrients and very productive in terms of aquatic animal and plant life.

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