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Inter Press Service: Shellfish in the Gulf of Mexico grow with drops of petroleum inside them, coyotes eat oil-soaked birds, and sharks suffocate when the oil coats their gills. Oil droplets have been found beneath the shells of tiny post-larval blue crabs drifting into Mississippi coastal marshes from offshore waters, says Harriet Perry, director of the University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory. Many kinds of fish and shore birds feed on those young crabs. And this is just ......
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BP Oil Poisons the Gulf of Mexico’s Food Chain
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 20th, 2010
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