Author(s)

D.M. Fleet & B. Reineking

Abstract

Oil from shipping has been polluting the North Sea since it was introduced as fuel at the beginning of this century. The expansion in the use of heavy fuel oil and the subsequent disposal of oil residues at sea led to a drastic increase in marine oil pollution in the southern North Sea in the early 1980s. In March 1998, a Research and Development Project investigating the oil input into the North Sea and effects on this of free oil disposal facilities in German North Sea harbours was initiated in Germany. On the basis of the results of beached bird surveys, aerial surveillance, the amount of oil received by oil disposal facilities in German harbours and oth

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