thousands of eggs about half of them have hatched. the adults are having to feed those young from fish from the oil slicks. i don't think it's worth posing this kind of a risk to those precious environments that we all love. >> even greenpeace recognizes american's need to be energy dependent. steiner scoffs at conspiracy theories the obama administration was slow to respond because it secretly wanted to undermine offshore oil industry. >> i think that's kind of ludicrous. >> noah pleased a ban on fishing in most of the gulf costing billions. was the ban an over reaction? >> isn't it possible that this water, this big body of water will just churn and wash this stuff out? >> let's hope so. i mean this is an open ocean environment. there is going to be wave activity and such. it's a very different ecosystem than in alaska an elsewhere. while it's doing that it's exposing all of the water column organisms to toxicity that