Sharks and Oil in Alabama Coastline

[Michael Pancier]

Submerged oil at Bon Secour shoreline

Sobering video of how the ecosystem is being turned on its head due to the oil spill.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Thanks for sharing the link, quite distressing!

[Alfred Forns]

Thanks for the link Mike, couldn't finis it :( Hope something can be done !!!

[John Chardine]

I'll be at Bonaventure next weekend, which is a lead-in to say that gannets have already been affected by the blowout. It could have been a lot worse because the blowout occurred at a time when the adult gannets were already at, or returning to the breeding colonies in North America- all in Canada. However, young birds do not return until later and the youngest probably stay south for their first summer after fledging the year before- these birds will be affected and we are already figuring out ways to detect impacts. I have been co-running the Northern Gannet census for the past 10 years and we have better population information for gannets than any other species of seabird, or bird for that matter, dating back to the 1970s. This should give us a good baseline from which to look for future impacts.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Please keep us posted, John!

[Ed Cordes]

Thanks for posting. Sure is distressing to see this.