After the Spill (Break HW #3)

The article After the Spill by Laura Leigh Davidson, is about the aftermath of the great oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On April 20th, 2010 an oil rig had exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. As we all know the oil spill caused a great amount of problems. The water became filled with oil, turning it black, which affected all the sea life in the water. This is a big problem because the animals had been mutating! Mutating animals cause a big problem because the seafood that the fishermen have been catching are such an usual sight. It is another big problem because it can cause a big change in the future for the sea animals. The oil spill is a humongous problem because thinking about the future of those animals aren't that great.

Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico been catching sea animals... weird sea animals. Due to the oil spill, the animals had been mutated! They have been capturing shrimp with no eyes, crabs without claws and fish with sores covering their bodies. Davidson explains that "These new traits usually prove harmful." The oil that is getting into the animals is causing new traits in the animals cells and offspring. This is a bad problem because since there are MANY mutated sea life which aren't good to eat. It could cause a lot of problems for markets also. Since they are catching the bad mutated animals, they wouldn't want to put something so unusual and nasty looking to sell. No one would buy it! A fisherman, Sidney Schwartz, had said “We've fished here all our lives and have never seen anything like this."

The mutated animals are very bad for the future. They are because crabs are known for having claws as well as all of the other mutated animals. We don't know which animals would be bad and which would be good. There could reproduce and crate a whole different kind of unknown species. They could be very harmful also because of the oil which is inside of them. Some of the sea life could get transported to all over the world which could be a threatening event because we don't know what they could mutate into then!

The oil spill is a real bad event. It could cause many other problems that people wouldn't even think of. It could hurt the market sales. It could possibly harm people. And who knows, it could endanger a bunch of species. Even though the oil spill was in just that part of the world, no one knows what could happen.