All DH oil spill waters now open

All waters previously closed to fishing following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are now open. Credit: US Coastguard

NOAA has now reopened 1,041 square miles of Gulf waters immediately surrounding the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, just east of Louisiana.

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