(http://dahrjamail.net/gulf-coast-fishermen-challenge-us-government-over-dispersants)
In the coastal south there have many primary economic activities. The leading producing of large volumes of citrus fruit and sugar cane from Florida are famous in American's supermarket. However, commercial fishing is a part of Coastal South's important industry.
In 2012, commercial fishers in Louisiana landed 1.2 billion pounds and garnered $331 million in revenue and Mississippi landed 263.6 million pounds. The economic report said commercial and recreational fishing nationally supported about 1.7 million jobs in 2012.
However, this Coastal South's industry impacted by man-made disaster.
On 20 April 2010, an offshore oil drilling rig Deepwater Horizon got explosion and sank. The rig's drilling site caused over 210 million gallons of crude oil leaked into the Gulf of Mexico.
Coastal of west Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, east Louisiana and fishing areas in the Gulf were closed for one year due crude oil spill. furthermore, crude oil can divided into smaller droplets and enter the gulf's food chain through zooplankton. The toxins from oil spills can cause fish hearts into cardiac arrest.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/more-than-three-years-later-oil-from-the-deepwater-horizon-persists-in-the-gulf-180948063/?no-ist
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-tuna-hearts-oil-spill-toxins-20140213-story.html
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