Sunlight and bunker oil a fatal combination for Pacific herring
Monday, December 26, 2011 - 15:00
in Earth & Climate
The 2007 Cosco Busan disaster, which spilled 54,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay, had an unexpectedly lethal impact on embryonic fish, devastating a commercially and ecologically important species for nearly two years, reports a new study by the University of California, Davis, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.