Shocking! 4 Million Barrels Of Oil From BP Disaster May Have Hurt Bluefin Reproduction

[hatrack]

Wow, who knew??

The release of 4 million barrels of oil in the 87 days following the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010 occurred just as Atlantic bluefin tuna had returned to the Gulf of Mexico to spawn, and a small but significant percentage of the adult fish and their eggs and larvae were likely exposed to the toxic oil, according to a new study announced Friday (Sept. 30).

The study led by scientists with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and Stanford University concludes that the oil cumulatively covered 3.1 million square miles where fish, eggs and larvae were present in the weeks immediately after the accident.

When combined with other stressors affecting this species of tuna -- including overfishing and warming seas caused by climate change -- the addition of the oil's impact "may result in significant effects for a population that shows little evidence of rebuilding," the study published in Nature: Scientific Reports concluded.

The study, funded by the Natural Resource Damage Assessment for the BP spill required under the federal Oil Pollution Act, made use of computer modeling based on information gathered from 16 years of electronic tagging of 66 tuna that kept track of individual fish locations, temperatures and oscillating diving patterns. The information was compared with satellite observations of the breadth of oil from the spill on the surface of the Gulf to estimate the potential impacts.

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http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/09/bp_oil_may_have_hurt_bluefin_t.html

[Glorfindel]

1. Shocking, indeed. 3.1 million square miles is almost exactly the size of the lower 48 states

There's no way to wrap one's mind around such a horrific disaster.

[Dustlawyer]

2. BP used Corexit because it sinks the oil to the bottom, it doesn't disperse the oil like

they claim. BP advertised so heavily after the spill that the MSM would not report what was really happening to the victims and the environment.

The oil and Corexit have devastated the oyster industry, putting one isolated oysters get community in Eastpoint, Florida all on welfare. Florida governor Rick Scott, not known for helping poor people, all on welfare and retraining. Their options were to get a G.E.D., train as a truck driver, welder, or prison guard. This toxic mess will be with us for a thousand years!

Big companies like BP can control the media and the government. They can also manipulate the litigation. By offering the Plaintiff's Steering Committee (PSC), a small group of law firms picked by the judge to go after BP, Haliburton and Trans Ocean, a $700,000,000 "Common Benifit Fund" that they would get if almost all of the victims were trapped in a terrible Class Settlement where 2/3 of the victims got nothing and the 1/3 left got a fraction of their losses. The Class Settlement had to make it to the end without being overturned on appeal before the PSC could get the money. The PSC are the only ones that have the standing to fight to overturn this horrible miscarriage of justice!