One of the most noticeable forms of ocean pollution are oil spills.An oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, due to human activity and is a form of pollution. Oil spills may be due to releases of crude oil from tankers, offshore platforms, drilling rigs and wells, as well as spills of refined petroleum products (such as gasoline, diesel).While most oil spills happen in the water they can also happen on land.Oil spills have many effects on the environment the most obvious being oil being stuck in birds feathers and poisoning fish.but there are many long term effects people do not know about.A PLoS ONE study shows
Fish exposed to oil prior to bacterial challenge exhibited