ЗАМЪРСЯВАНЕ НА ЧЕРНО МОРЕ В РЕЗУЛТАТ НА ПОЖАР НА ТАНКЕР
BLACK SEA POLLUTION AS A RESULT OF TANKER FIRE

Author(s): Radostin Dolchinkov, Kamen Seymenliyski, Ivan Popov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Economy, Geography, Regional studies, Energy and Environmental Studies, Environmental Geography, Public Administration, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Бургаски свободен университет
Keywords: black sea; pollution; tanker fire
Summary/Abstract: Oil pollution is one of the serious global environmental problems. Although the results of this process are still assessed as small, this is a continuous disruption of aquatic ecosystems, which gradually leads to local degradation of individual areas of the World Ocean. The amount of oil discharged is of the order of 3-6 million tons per year. The ecological impact of oil spills consists of physical and chemical changes in the development and growth of marine inhabitants, increased toxicity and, as a result, increased mortality of various species of marine animals. Over the past 50 years, several huge and dozens of smaller oil spills have been observed in the oceans and seas. The first group, which causes much greater damage - environmental destruction and huge economic losses, includes the following cases:

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