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Spain Oil Spill
04/12/2002 Spain Muxia- volunteers collecting oil sludge on a beach in Muxia in Galicia, northwestern Spain, A Bahamas-registered oil tanker broke in two and sank into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Spain last Nov. 19 spilling around 1.6 million gallons of fuel oil. Hundreds of beaches have been contaminated by the fuel oil so far and the government has banned fishing and shellfish harvesting. PHOTO:ALFRED.
Photo ID: SPAIN020
Photo keywords: Alfred Yaghobzadeh, Bahamas, beach, carrying, cleaning, flagged Prestige, fuel oil, Galicia, millions of barrels, oil, oil spill, Spain, Spanish, stricken, stricken tanker