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Main Title Long Term Effects of the Barge FLORIDA Oil Spill.
Author Sanders, Howard L. ; Grassle, J. Frederick ; Hampson, George R. ; Morse, Linda S. ; Garner-Price, Susan ;
CORP Author Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA.;Municipal Environmental Research Lab., Cincinnati, OH.
Year Published 1981
Report Number EPA-R-801001-02; EPA-600/2-81-012;
Stock Number PB81-144792
Additional Subjects Ecology ; Benthos ; Oil pollution ; Estuaries ; Damage assessment ; Sampling ; Fuel oil ; Degradation ; Hydrocarbons ; Invertebrates ; Sediments ; Concentration(Composition) ; Mortality ; Aquatic plants ; Marine fishes ; Birds ; Abundance ; Animal behavior ; Coasts ; Massachusetts ; Oil spills ; Water pollution effects(Animals) ; Water pollution effects(Plants)
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NTIS  PB81-144792 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
The report describes the effects on the marine and estuarine benthos of no. 2 fuel oil spilled by the barge FLORIDA off West Falmouth, Massachusetts. Analyses of hydrocarbons established that pollution was greatest and most persistent in the intertidal and subtidal zones of Wild Harbor River, less severe in degree and duration at stations farthest from shore. Plants, crustaceans, fish, and birds suffered both high mortality immediately after the spill, and physiological and behavioral abnormalities directly related to high concentrations of the fuel oil.