Subject: king eiders
Date: Feb 28 18:24:27 1996
From: Hal Roth - halroth at teleport.com
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Thought this might be interesting to you...a little closer to home
than Wales
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Subject: Investigators seek source of mystery oil spill
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuter) - The U.S. Coast Guard has
dispatched investigators to the Bering Sea to seek a match with
a mystery oil spill that has killed hundreds of Alaska seabirds,
officials said Monday.
Four investigators have sampled 30 vessels so far, Coast
Guard spokesman Jeff Crump said, and more vessels are due to be
sampled in the search for the mystery oil spill.
``If we come up with a match and we prosecute and the
responsible party is found guilty, they would be subject to
criminal and civil sanctions,'' he said.
The Coast Guard's Oil Identification Center in Groton,
Connecticut, identified the spilled substance as thick bunker
oil used by larger vessels. The center also analyzed the oil by
what Crump called a scientific ``fingerprint'' that could match
it to its source.
The spill was detected last week, when oiled birds began
washing on the shores of the Pribilof Islands, a tiny chain in
the Bering Sea.
As of Monday morning, 723 birds, mostly king eiders, were
dead from the spill, Crump said. About 70 were being treated at
a rescue center set up in Anchorage, he said.
The oil-coated birds appear to be dying of starvation, Crump
said. King eiders are relatively large seabirds that normally do
not come ashore this time of year but stay at sea in ``floats''
of up to 150,000 individuals.
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