From Practical Fishkeeping, about the USA: Deepwater oil spill
area has more ill fish A government-funded survey of the entire
Gulf of Mexico last summer found more ill fish in the area of
the 2010 Deepwater oil spill than anywhere else. The survey took
place last summer with funding from NOAA and cooperation from
the state’s marine science laboratory in St. Petersburg and
caught over 4000 fish and found many exhibited unusual skin
lesions. Steve Murawski, an oceanographer who previously served
as the chief fisheries scientist of the National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration who lead the project said that
whilst the highest frequency of disease in fish was the area
where the oil spill was that people shouldn’t necessarily assume
that this was the cause. He pointed out that the large number of
fish with skin lesions could have also been caused by oil rigs,
leaky pipelines and even natural oil vents in the sea floor.
“Even if the disease is from oil,” he said. “It’s another step
to show it’s from th