Beautiful Nightmare

The oil rig explosion obviously has effected Alabama deeply as we are right on the gulf and love our local seafood. Now the reason why it is affecting us is because how how these incidents have impacted the fish and sea life of the Alabama coasts. From the surface death can be seen of the fish, birds, and turtles, but more lies underneath the surface. Scientists have found the bottom of the seafloor in certain areas to be caked with oil, destroying organisms that thrive down there. The main source of fish food, plankton, has been diseased from the oil and is likely to cause problems for the fish and seafood industry even in the future. Chemicals used to stop the spread of the oil may have worked, but may result in the fish and future eggs to be mutated making more difficult years to come for those trying to make a living off of the seafood industry.