Vital Seaweed in the Gulf

Before the oil spill occurred, I had not really thought about all the components that were vital to the Gulf Ocean’s fragile ecosystem. I was reading an article titled, “Oil Threatens Key Gulf Algae” and the author points out that algae or seaweed as most people like to call it, is already being destroyed by massive globs of crude oil. The seaweed is so essential because it houses and protects many animals such as tiny shrimp and crabs. In addition, there are so many businesses that are being affected by the spill because there will be nothing to catch in the waters, it will be another dead sea. I don’t seem to see any silver lining. This is oil spill is a catastrophe and I haven’t seen any progress yet.


Source:
http://www.kentucky.com/2010/06/22/1317917/oil-threatens-key-gulf-algae-and.html