Table 3 (Cont.) 



Date: 12/31/76 



Locality: Last reported off Nova Scotia 



Amount: 8.2 million gallons 



Type of Oil : Bunker C 



Vessel : Grand Zenith 



Environmental Impact: Unknown - spill not identified 



Date: 1/28/77 



Locality: Cape Cod Canal, Buzzards Bay 



Amount: .1 million gallons 



Type of Oil: #2 fuel oil 



Vessel : Frederick E. Bouchard #65 



Envi ronmental Impact: Unknown 



3.1 Offshore and Nearshore Environments 



Available information on New England's marine environment has been 

 summarized in the Trigom Report: A Socio Economic and Environmental 

 Inventory of the North Atlantic Region and the Draft Environmental Im- 

 pact Statement for Sale No. 42 . A concise description of the living 

 resources on Georges Bank and the effect of petroleum-related activity 

 on these resources is presented in Vol. II of Fishing and Petroleum 

 Interactions on Georges Bank . The information in this section is takei 

 primarily from the above reports. Emphasis was placed on the commer- 

 cially and ecologically important resources. 



Phytoplankton 



Microscopic plants exist in abundance on Georges Bank and in 

 our nearshore waters. They are responsible for the high productivity 

 of these waters. Although it is difficult to monitor changes in the 

 population, it is believed that there were no major effects on phyto- 

 plankton from the Torrey Canyon spill or the Santa Barbara blowout. 



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