Re: Bananas And Oil
I think we will be seeing the consequences of this spill for a long time and in areas far outside of the Gulf of Mexico. We will never know how many fish and other wildlife will be killed by this spill--we will just know that the fish are not there anymore. Even bluefin tuna populations that are fished worldwide will be affected. The unseen plumes of oil under the surface will suck the oxygen out of huge areas, killing fish and other food organisms.
I think it is entirely possible that oil will show up on Altantic Coast and even reach the Sargasso Sea in the middle of the Atlantic. The components of the oil that evaporate will probably even reach the Arctic as have compounds like DDT.
Herring fisheries have never returned in Alaska after being wiped out by the Valdeze oil spill. What fisheries will be wiped out here? How many?
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