Scientists have found oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout in fishes' livers and on the deep ocean floor
- Written by Steven Murawski, Downtown Partnership-Peter Betzer Endowed Chair in Biological Oceanography, University of South Florida
Researchers use Atlantic mackerel for bait on long-lining fishing sampling expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico..C-IMAGE Consortium, CC BY-ND
Over the decade since the Deepwater Horizon spill, thousands of scientists have analyzed its impact on the Gulf of Mexico. The spill affected many different parts of the Gulf, from coastal marshes to the deep...