Gulfcast: Dispatches From The Gulf

In 1989, 11 million gallons of crude leaked from the Exxon Valdez oil tanker into Prince William Sound, Alaska — devastating everything in its path and causing fishery collapses in the years that followed. For oceanographers studying the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster on Gulf of Mexico fisheries, the Valdez spill provides important parallels and lessons. NOTE: Science is continually evolving. To see the latest research updates on this topic, please visit the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) web site at gulfresearchinitiative.org.