One surprise in their findings, Murawski said, was that the part of the gulf with the lowest diversity of fish species is the area of the gulf with the greatest number of offshore oil rigs.
“They’ve had 50 to 60 years of oil development there,” he said. “So that may be one of the at-risk areas” in case of a future oil spill. A disaster like Deepwater Horizon could more easily wipe out the fish living there to the point where they could not bounce back, he explained.
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By Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Email the author | Follow on Twitter on March 19, 2014 at 6:06 PM, updated March 19, 2014 at 7:19 PM Insects living in wetland grasses along Louisiana’s coast oiled in the aftermath… Read More ›
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