{"id":704,"date":"2014-03-24T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T20:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=704"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:50:00","slug":"the-deepwater-horizon-spill-and-fish-heart-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/the-deepwater-horizon-spill-and-fish-heart-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"The Deepwater Horizon spill and fish heart defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_707\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4710168879_6da958dbc5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-707\" alt=\"The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 and lasted until September 19, 2010, although some groups believe it continues to leak oil. An estimated 4.9 million barrels leaked into the ocean. (Credit: Kris Kr\u00fcg, flickr.com).\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4710168879_6da958dbc5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4710168879_6da958dbc5.jpg 500w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4710168879_6da958dbc5-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4710168879_6da958dbc5-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began on April 20, 2010 and lasted until September 19, 2010, although some groups believe it continues to leak oil. An estimated 4.9 million barrels leaked into the ocean. (Credit: Kris Kr\u00fcg, flickr.com).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">A new study shows that fish embryos developed heart defects when exposed to crude oil levels similar to that found in oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The study looked at bluefin and yellowfin tuna as well as amberjack, species that are highly valued in commercial fisheries.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.4em;\">Stock of Bluefin tuna that spawns in the Gulf of Mexico is the same stock that supports the tuna fishery on Canada\u2019s east coast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/early\/2014\/03\/19\/1320950111.abstract?sid=1215dd31-3c3c-438f-8e29-974c15f1cd4e\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>March 6, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong><strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwfsc.noaa.gov\/contact\/display_staffprofile.cfm?staffid=697\" target=\"_blank\">John P. Incardona<\/a>, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows that fish embryos developed heart defects when exposed to crude oil levels similar to that found in oil spills like the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The study looked at bluefin and yellowfin tuna as well as amberjack, species that are highly valued in commercial fisheries.\u00a0Stock of Bluefin tuna that spawns in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[215,123,645],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-environment","tag-fisheries","tag-oil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/4710168879_6da958dbc5.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}