The San Francisco spilled Oil and Crab's dillema by Zuzana Blazeckova

The San Francisco spilled Oil and Crab's dilemma Struck the Chinese freighter Cosco Buscan on Nov. 7 has at the San Francisco-Oakland Bay far and wide consequences. Just to remind, by this accident spilled 58,000 gallons of oil into the bay, environment protectors are calling and circumstances of this crash are still not explained. Even though the consequences are almost outright. Fishermen are stunned and miles of beaches remain closed hence the pollution. Furthermore the situation is getting worse because of the Dungeness opening crab season. After oil enters the sea, part of it evaporates and the rest spreads over the water. It is hard to deal with it, even working with all need equipment with hands and help of experts. The scientists claim that it is almost impossible to recover more then 15-20 per cent of the spilled oil in the water. Despite the warnings and request to stop all sport or commercial fishing for at least 2 ½ weeks, the result of the state announced to close just the San Francisco Bay and three miles of Pacific coast (from Point Reyers to San Mateo Country). This will probably not affect the Dungeness crab fishery in such a big amount, though crabs are caught about three miles offshore. The Chinese crew members of the Honk Kong based cargo ship explained the main cause of the breakdown as a heavy fog weather while the accident. But there is still couple of strange circumstances connected with incident left. For example some drug of alcohol tests which were taken by all crew members are by Federal law suppose to be tested for alcohol within two hours and for drugs within 32 hours of an accident. However they were not conducted in appropriate time limits after collision, it might be one of the reasons why crew members refuse to communicate with federal lawyers. While the investigation The Coast Guard has replaced the commander overseeing the response to the accident. Whether this emergency plan including not only city of San Francisco, state California but other states too is adequate, will show the future.

related story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071115/ap_on_re_us/bay_spill;_ylt=Am18xrSEeD8gXVhe82cA4eus0NUE

by Zuzana Blazeckova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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