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Coastal fish populations didn't crash after the Deepwater Horizon spill – why not?

  • Written by F. Joel Fodrie, Associate Professor of Marine Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Coastal fish populations didn't crash after the Deepwater Horizon spill – why not?Oil sheen in a Louisiana marsh that was heavily affected by the 2010 BP spill, Sept. 27, 2013.AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released 4 to 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, some early projections estimated that the toll on fisheries could reach US$5-10 billion by 2020. Chemicals in crude oil may...

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