Dead dolphins spotted with oil have been washing up in eastern Louisiana.(Courtesy of Gulf Coast Exploreum )
New Orleans - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says that eight months after the Deepwater Horizon oil well was capped, dolphins are washing ashore in east Louisiana with some oil from that spilled on their bodies.
Spokeswoman Kim Amendola says the dolphins had spots of weathered oil.
Blair Mase - NOAA's Gulf Coast stranding coordinator - emphasizes there's no way yet to know why the dolphins died. She says the most recent dolphin bearing BP oil was found two weeks ago.
Blair Mase - NOAA's Gulf Coast stranding coordinator - emphasizes there's no way yet to know why the dolphins died. She says the most recent dolphin bearing BP oil was found two weeks ago.
Mase says 15 dolphins with confirmed or suspected oil on their bodies washed ashore since the spill began last April - and eight had oil from that well, which was capped July 15.
She said 13 were in Louisiana, and one each in Mississippi and Florida.
62 dead dolphins washed ashore in Alabama and Mississippi between Jan. 1 and March 17. Infections, red tide, oil spill effects and an influx of cold water into the Gulf have been suspected.
Source: Associated Press
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