Bluefin tuna hit hard by BP oil disaster

2010-10-20T10:43:00

By the time the Deepwater Horizon well was finally plugged on 15 July, some 750 million litres of crude oil had spewed into the Gulf.

Numbers of juvenile Atlantic tuna at a major spawning site in the Gulf of Mexico probably fell by at least 20% this year as a result of the BP oil spill, according to the European Space Agency (ESA), whose satellites are assessing the disaster''s effects on the fish’s habitat.

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