Oil spills coat mangrove roots, choking them and poisoning the complex life they shelter. Booms try to contain, skimmers remove, and dispersants break it up, but in these dense, muddy shores, the real cleanup is often impossible, and dispersants just sink the harm. In India, the Coast Guard leads the response under the National Oil Spill Disaster Contingency Plan.
I say this after watching a “cleaned” site in Gujarat for five years—the crabs never returned, and the fisherfolk’s nets still come up stained. My data shows a slow poisoning the plans don’t account for.
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