Oil spill clean up

Is there a better way to clean oil spills? Oil spills may take a few days to clean, a few weeks to maybe even a few years it all depends on how much oil is spilled. On average 1.3 million gallons of petroleum are spilled into the U.S. waters each year, that number could and would easily double with a large oil spill. Why after all the oil spills that have happened in the past 10 year are the tools still not perfect? For one skimmers can't be used on rough seas because it will not function properly and with the few hours it takes to set up the oil could spread around seven square kilometers making it much harder to remove all the oil. Chemical dispersants is another way of clean up, this is when chemicals are put into the water that make the oil droplets small enough to be biodegraded. This sounds like a good idea, the word biodegraded sounds good to anyone but in reality this is poisoning fish, corals, and other marine species. So is there a better way to clean up oil spills without so many consequences?