Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Levels in Turbot and Salmon Farmed Close to the Site of the Aegean Sea Oil Spill
| Autor: | M. E. Alvarez Piñeiro, M. A. Lage, J. Simal Lozano, S.T. Carril González-Barros |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Gas Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Fish farming Fisheries Industrial Oils Toxicology Disasters chemistry.chemical_compound symbols.namesake Salmon Freezing Animals Seawater Water pollution Ships Aliphatic hydrocarbon biology General Medicine biology.organism_classification Pollution Hydrocarbons Fishery Turbot Brent Crude chemistry Spain Oil spill Flatfishes symbols Environmental science Petroleum Tonne Water Pollutants Chemical |
| Zdroj: | Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. 57:811-815 |
| ISSN: | 1432-0800 0007-4861 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s001289900261 |
| Popis: | After the Andros Patria oil spill, the most serious oil tanker accident to occur off the coast of Galicia (N.W. Spain) was the running aground and subsequent conflagration of the Aegean Sea supertanker outside the northern Spanish port of La Coruna (December 3rd 1992). Approximately 60,000 tonnes of Brent oil were spilled into the Atlantic Ocean in the cited coastal region. Subsequently, an impropitious combination of a high tide and a change in wind direction caused the resulting slick to rapidly spread into the port. Measures aimed at cleaning up affected areas and evacuating the ca. 11,215 tonnes of oil remaining in the supertanker were immediately implemented. However, within just a few days the resulting contamination had killed some 15000 turbot juveniles and larvae, which are cultivated in fish farms close to the accident site. The environmental impact of major oil spillages has been widely studied. Several scientists have suggested that, in terms of the negative effects on the seawater quality and productive capacity of the affected maritime regions, the magnitudes of the Aegean Sea and Amoco Cadiz accidents are comparable. This paper reports variations over time of aliphatic hydrocarbon levels in turbot and Atlantic salmon sampled from fish farmsmore » close to the site of the Aegean Sea oil spill. 6 refs., 2 figs., 1 tab.« less |
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