This stimulus presents a set of facts that are specific to a particular place ("a large river nearby" has polluted "a vast ocean region" in which "few fish can survive"). Answer choice (E) can be eliminated because it is too general - "in a body of water in general" is not textually supported. All we know anything about is what is happening in this specific ocean region in particular.
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