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(CNN) – Fishing boats are Finding deformed sea life in the Gulf of Mexico and its raising concerns over the lingering effects of the BP Oil spill nearly two years ago. Scientists and commercial fishers are finding shrimp, crab and fish deformed.
One shrimper caught 400 pounds of shrimp with no eyes.
Officials are also finding eyeless fish, fish with lesions, and creatures with large masses growing on their bodies. Scientists blame the deformities on the chemicals released from the oil leak as well as the two million gallons of the dispersant chemicals used to clean up the spill.
