Hydrocarbons and Pan in Fish and shellfish From Southwest Wales Following the Sea Empress Oil Spill in 1996

摘要

The tanker Sea Empress spilled approximatley 72,000 tons of light crude oil from the Forties field (North Sea) and 360 tons of heavy fuel oil at the mouth of Milford Haven in west Wales in February 1996. The scale of the spillage made it necessary to impose closure orders on both commercial and recreational fishing in adjacent coastal waters and rivers. A monitoring program was initiated both to follow the spread of oil and its uptake by fish and shellfish and to provide information with which to assess human health risks. In this paper we report the results of monitoring in both commercial and noncomercial stocks of fish and shellfish in thefirst 6 months following the grounding.