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The Exxon Valdez Spill Is Still Making Fish Suffer 26 Years Later

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The Exxon Valdez Spill Is Still Making Fish Suffer 26 Years Later

by The Daily Eye Team September 15 2015, 1:53 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secs

On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker collided with the Blight Reef in Alaska, spilling at least 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound. Some estimates put the number as high as 38 million gallons. The spill was on record as the largest in US waters until the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, and the immediate aftermath was devastating. 250,000 seabirds died and billions of fish eggs were destroyed, crashing the marine food web. Read More?at www.motherboard.vice.com



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