What About The Food Chains?

Look at all those dead marine mammals washed up on shore dead. Doesn't that just make you devastated to see what the oil spill has done to our environment and wildlife? Doesn't it make you think about the negative effects on the ecosystems and food chains in the ocean? When I was looking at all these very sad pictures I read an article that was attached to the picture o the dead sea turtle. The article was titled "Will The Oil Spill In The Gulf Of Mexico Be So Devastating That The Gulf Coast Economy Will Never Recover?" This really made me think about how all the fishing industries and fishermen will lose money because they can't catch and sell contaminated fish. Then I started to think well what about all the marine mammals that are being harmed because of all the oil. No one's thinking about them! The food chains in the oceans ecosystems would be pretty messed up with all these different species dying and washing up shore. Each one of those marine mammals washed up on shore played an important part in their food chain. They all had to eat something but not only did they get energy and nutrients from the thing they ate but they kept that population under control keeping it from over populating. They don't only effect what is below them in the food chain but what is above them as well. What ever was above them needed them to be able to eat and get energy and nutrients from it. Without them in the food chain the species underneath them will overpopulate and the species above them will eventually die out too. This could really throw the food chain out of whack! I think that the effects the oil spill has on the ecosystems and food chains is just as important as what is going on in the economy. I wouldn't be able to live along the coast seeing all these dead marine mammals washed up on shore either! But shouldn't some one care about the marine mammals too?
-Joclyn