Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common

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11. If our media would even cover this story, it would be full of excuses like,

"However, we can't know for certain that this is caused by the BP oil spill." I can just hear Blitzer spew the corporate propaganda in his robotic monotone.

Cake*, who lives in Mississippi, added: "It has been more than 33 years since the 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil disaster in Mexico's Bay of Campeche, and the oysters, clams, and mangrove forests have still not recovered in their oiled habitats in seaside estuaries of the Yucatan Peninsula. It has been 23 years since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska, and the herring fishery that failed in the wake of that disaster has still not returned."

Cake believes we are still in the short-term impact stage of BP's oil disaster.

"I will not be alive to see the Gulf of Mexico recover," said Cake, who is 72 years old. "Without funding and serious commitment, these things will not come back to pre-April 2010 levels for decades."

*Ed Cake, a biological oceanographer