FIGURE 2—

Number of seafood-related newspaper articles connected with the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, by oil spill stage: April 20, 2010–April 26, 2011.

Note. GSR = Gulf Seafood Risk. Raw counts were used to preserve comparison of volume differences among time periods, note that the third time period involves several months and the others, 4–6 weeks. First 6 months of coverage and the month around the 1-year anniversary of the oil spill were monitored. Those articles marked as “no gulf seafood risk” included those that mentioned seafood and risk, but the risks discussed were not connected to seafood.