No Fishing
Updated: 2010-05-28 09:12:10
The waters outlined in red indicates the area of the Gulf of Mexico closed to fishing as of May 28. The area encompasses 60,683 sq.mi. (157,169 sq,km.), or roughly 25 percent of federal waters in the Gulf. The red star indicates the site of the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil leak.
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Source: NOAA

As oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak washes ashore in Louisiana, what was to many an abstract possibility has become all too real.
Through a series of 39 images published Monday, The Big Picture offers a glimpse of the situation on the ground.