Deepwater Horizon oil spill
There are also other ways for those in the U.S. fishing industry to get paid back for money they lost because of the Gulf oil spill.  For example, the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund was started after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill to help people hurt by oil spills.  Another law, the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act lets the U.S. government give help when the Secretary of Commerce sees that all the fishing has failed in one place.