Look at all that oil that is contaminating the ocean and not to mention the aquatic life in it. Little fish think the oil is food so they eat it. Then when bigger fish eat them the oil gets carried into their system but that bigger fish eats more than one little fish so they have a higher concentration of oil. The higher up you go in the food chain the higher the concentration of oil is in the fish. This also means that once the food chain reaches humans the fish we eat from the contaminated ocean are filled with oil. Therefore we are eating fish with a very high level of oil in them and this is not good for our health. I would not be able to live by the coast when this oil spill happened because my family might have eaten the fish from the ocean lots because that is what was available. If the ocean and the fish in it are contaminated then we wouldn't be able to eat those fish. My family's main food supply would basically be wiped out because if we did eat it we could become very ill.
-Joclyn
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