When dealing with a catastrophe such as an oil spill, one must look at different ways to minimize the effects. The cleaning up of oil spills can be just as harmful as the oil spill occurring. Many companies look for the cost cutting method i.e the product to get the job done the fastest yet the product is the cheapest on the market. While these products may the best in getting the job done they tend to do more harm than good. Take for example the Corexit 9500 a dispersant used in the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico  was reportedly used by Petrotrin in their efforts to clean up  the oil spill in Gulf of Paria in 2013 has effects on organisms that can cause serious damage or death as worse case scenario. As budding environmentalists we must investigate the situation not only by the physical effects but also how will the product affect organisms and disrupt feeding relationships from one trophic level to another in a food web. According to tests done on microzooplankton retrieved from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico after its oil spill it was proven that the dispersant combined with the crude oil disrupted the energy flow from higher trophic levels to lower trophic levels and it changed the structure and dynamics of marine planktonic communities. We can compare the results and come up with one conclusion that Corexit 9500 causes harm. However there are many factors that can be taken into consideration. For example, how long were the organisms exposed to the crude oil as well as the dispersant. How much of it was accumulated by said organisms?  The toxicity of both crude oil and corexit 9500 and how the organisms adapt to the changes. Did the organisms get rid of the pollutant through egestion or metabolism? The factors listed above can tell us how organisms were affected and also if the crude oil and dispersant contribute to fish kill. As environmentalists one must come up with more sufficient ways of cleaning up an oil spill without causing further damage to food webs and organisms.