Friday, April 08, 2011

Why are baby dolphins washing ashore in Gulf?


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
    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.
    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.

    Feb 24, 2011 ... Scientists scrutinize rise in bottlenose dolphin deaths in Gulf of Mexico; ...dolphins many of them babies so far this year in the Gulf of Mexico, ... Calves and fetuses made up at least 85 percent of the deaths in ...
    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/02/24/scitech/main20036212.shtml

    BILOXI, Mississippi April 8, 2011— Scientists confirmed on Thursday that they have discovered oil on dead dolphins found along the U.S. Gulf Coast, raising fresh concerns about the effects of last year's BP oil spill on sea life. 
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