The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reopened over 5100 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday to commercial and recreational finfish fishing.
The reopened area extends from Cape San Blas to just south of Pensacola.
Researchers have not seen oil in the area in the last 30 days and trajectory models show the area is at a low risk for future exposure to oil.
From June 27 through July 20, NOAA sampled 153 finfish, including grouper, snapper, tuna and mahi mahi and said they found no contamination in the fish.
NOAA researchers will continue to take samples for testing from the newly re-opened area, and the agency has also implemented dockside sampling to test fish caught throughout the Gulf by commercial fishermen.
The closed area in the Gulf now covers just over 52 thousand square miles, or 22 percent of the federal waters in the Gulf.
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