The danger posed by the Gulf oil spill to the U.S. food supply is worse than previously thought, and could make testing of seafood necessary for decades to come, officials and scientists say.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said Tuesday it was doubling the area in the Gulf where commercial and recreational fishing are temporarily off-limits as the oil slick spreads to the south and east. The prohibited area is now about 46,000 square miles, roughly the size of Pennsylvania or one-fifth of federal waters in the Gulf.
Federal officials had already shut down fishing from the Mississippi River to the Florida Panhandle.
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