Oil Found on Dead Dolphins in Gulf of Mexico
Updated: Friday, 08 Apr 2011, 8:14 AM EDT
Published : Friday, 08 Apr 2011, 8:14 AM EDT
Published : Friday, 08 Apr 2011, 8:14 AM EDT
Institute for Marine Mammal Studies veterinary technician Wendy Hatchett lifts a dead bottlenose dolphin that was found on Ono Island, Ala., and brought for examination to Gulfport, Miss., Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. (AP Photo) |
(The Wall Street Journal) - A small number of dolphins that washed up in the Gulf of Mexico have oil on them from a blown-out BP PLC well, but it is not clear whether the oil was a factor in their deaths, federal scientists said Thursday.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials said 293 dolphins -- an abnormally high number -- have washed ashore along the Gulf coast since late April 2010, when an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a rig drilling a BP well, sent millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf. Most of the dolphins were dead, NOAA officials said.
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