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Question by Winnie: five ways that the Exxon Valdez oil spill affected Prince William Sound.?

Best answer:

Answer by Yogi
– coated more than a thousand miles of coastline
– killed hundreds of thousands of birds, fish and animal
– – 250,000 and 500,000 seabirds,
– – thousands of sea otters,
– – hundreds of harbor seals and bald eagles,
– – a couple of dozen killer whales, and
– – a dozen or more river otters
– – destroyed billions of salmon and herring eggs
– those fisheries were still unrecovered
– higher death rates among sea otters
– stunted growth or other damage among others
– crude oil can still be found under the rocks and sand on the beaches
http://environment.about.com/od/environmentalevents/p/exxon_valdez.htm

– ” spill was a staggering blow for a town so reliant on commercial fishing, particularly for herring, whose numbers plummeted several years after the spill and have yet to return … “Scientists tell me the remaining oil will take decades and possibly centuries to disappear,” said Nancy Bird, president of the science center.”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/03/24/damage-still-seen-20-years-after-exxon-valdez-oil-spill/

– “Hot water treatment was popular until it was determined that the treatment could be causing more damage than the oil. Small organisms were being cooked by the hot water.” – altered the food chain
http://www.evostc.state.ak.us/index.cfm?FA=facts.QA

Economic Losses:
Recreational Sport Fishing Losses – for 1990 the range was $ 3.6 million $ 50.5 million dollars
Tourism Losses – 3.Fifty-nine percent of businesses reported spill-related cancellations
Existence value – loss of $ 4.9 to $ 7.2 billion dollars
Replacement costs of birds and mammals – the relocation, replacement and rehabilitation etc
http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/152720/

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