I dunno Gene.... California's beaches have little tar balls everywhere for decades now, you want 'em on your doorstep too?
They WERE, decades ago, I remember as a young little kid on the beaches of Ocean City Maryland, year ~1950 or so, and the family took vacations once a year there so I found these 'tar balls' on the beach, rolling in the sand, I picked them up and mommy said to put them down, they are all sticky and gooey so to not play with them, try to avoid them....so I did, because I had to have my toes and hands cleaned with alky or gasoline, whatever, and that stunk....woopie doo...
but by age 12 or so, make that 1956 they were gone....
now keep in mind that was in northern waters, with the gulf stream going north carrying all them sunken ships crude oil or bunker oil or fuel oil, or whatEVER upon the shores, almost directly....
now figger the evaporation rate in the gulf where it's hotter'n hell or or the mid/north atlantic....MY guess 2 years....
BTW, I LOVE shrimp and sea food, not much of a fish eater though, olde tyme family religious crap...hated LENT or anything to DO with fish since....
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