October 3, 2015 — The following was released by the Gulf Seafood Institute:
Two new oil spill science outreach publications have been released from the Sea Grant Oil Spill Science Outreach Team. They focus on fishery landing and disasters and the impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon spill on Gulf seafood.
The project is funded by a grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, an independent organization created in 2010 with funds from BP to support oil spill research in the Gulf. It provides support to the Sea Grant programs of the Gulf of Mexico (Florida, Mississippi-Alabama, Louisiana and Texas) for an extension and outreach effort to increase the use of oil spill science by people whose livelihoods depend on a healthy Gulf.
Two recently released publications, Fisheries Landings and Disasters in the Gulf of Mexico and The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill’s Impact on Gulf Seafood, are the first for the five-state team.
“Understanding the value and use of fishery-dependent data, like landings, as well as fishery-independent research, such as the results emerging from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, is an important theme in this publication,” said Chris Hale, the Texas member of the Sea Grant Program.