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 * Carl Safina spent months covering the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico for an upcoming book. As the head of the Blue Ocean Institute, he knew how catastrophic the spill might prove for the Gulf. Yet nearly a year after the biggest oil spill in U.S. history began, on April 20, 2010, Safina is guardedly optimistic. "A lot of questions remain, but I think that most people expected it would be much worse by now," he says (Time). The oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico happened on April 20, 2010. This had a devastating effect to sea life and to fisheries and shrimpers, people who fish for shrimp. Clam sales had gone down because the clams have been covered in slick oil and are not edible. An oil rig had leaked and took many months to recover from. The Gulf Oil Spill has been a disaster for sea life. According to Time, sea life has been washing up; things have been discovered oily and dead on the ocean floor; and many different kinds of animals are dying **
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