Gulf Oil Spill Ticking Time Bomb for Bluefin Tuna
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BP Plc’s oil leak has polluted 140 miles (225 kilometers) of shoreline from Louisiana to Florida. Below the surface, the crude threatens a staple of sushi restaurants from New York to Tokyo: bluefin tuna.
Petroleum gushing from a seabed well in the Gulf of Mexico has caused slicks that overlap one of two spawning grounds for Atlantic bluefin. The adult fish lay eggs in the Gulf in April and May before heading to the North Atlantic to feed.