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Nantucket Oil Spill Threatens Georges Bank Fisheries
The Argo Merchant spill near Georges Bank endangers a multimillion dollar international fishing area famed for scallops lobsters and cod. Experts note oil sinks to the bottom risking bottom fisheries and coastal ecosystems while winds currents and winter conditions mitigate or worsen impacts depending on future shifts.
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Bayard Webster
N.Y. Times News Service
Argo
Georges Bank
mid-Atlantic
John L. McHugh
Marine Sciences Research Center
State University of New York At
Stony Brook
Torrey Canyon
Britain
British
Santa Barbara Channel
California
Falmouth
Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
New Bedford
John Sasso
Gerry E. Studds
Cape Cod
Martha’s Vineyard
Nantucket
Hyannis
UPI
Atlantic
Great Point
Wallace Bailey
Massachusetts Audubon Society
Soviet Union
East Germany
Japan
New England
Russell Train
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Walter Glidden
Glidden Islands Seafoods
Glidden
John Joachim
Maine Street
Joachim
Gulf Stream