What did more harm to the Gulf. The oil leak, or the government?

The New York Times reported-“The government is expected to announce on Wednesday that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated—and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm”

The president called this the worst man made disaster in history.
The Times does not discuss the other disaster in the Gulf; The government’s reaction to the oil spill. The government impulsively shut down two of the Gulf’s major industries-Oil and Fishing.

The New York Times continues;
“Testing of fish has shown little cause for worry so far, and fishing grounds in the gulf are being reopened at a brisk clip. At one point the government had closed 36 percent of federal gulf waters to fishing, but that figure is now down to 24 percent and is expected to drop further in coming weeks.”

Some people may have assumed that if Gulf fishing was shut down, there must have been evidence of seafood being tainted with oil. But it turns out the current administration gave Gulf seafood the same consideration that they gave Shirley Sherrod -assume that it’s poison and ban it, without a glance at the evidence.
Now the administration is talking about lifting its moratorium on offshore oil drilling. But at one time they were so committed to the ban that they defied a judge’s ruling that it was “arbitrary and capricious.”
So which one is worse?