Scientists have been able to discover that the oil has poisoned the marine life in a fragment of the Gulf of Mexico, which is a major support to the generating grounds of the fish species that are important commercially.

A team of researchers at the University of South Florida on Tuesday said the initial results showed the samples of droplets of oil amongst the sediments of vital underwater canyon.

David Hollander, Chief Scientist, researching on a vessel that came back after a 10-day voyage in the Gulf, said that the water had in fact a high level of poison that needs to be identified at the earliest and this was the foremost signal that food web was being intimidated by the toxicity.

A whopping 200 million gallons of oil has been leaked into the Gulf waters after a BP’s well broke, but now it has been capped.

The firm made use of millions of gallons of chemicals so as to break the oil that was oozing out, off the Louisiana coast.

Microscopic plant-like organisms maintaining the food web were found to be in a very deteriorating condition.