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FAO pollution manual
Marine Pollution Bulletin
One volume contains edited papers of the BIICL international conference on 'New Directions in the Law of the Sea', held in London in February 1973. The set of four volumes is available for £33, or volumes can be purchased separately. For details contact: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 32 Fumival Street, London EC4A 1JN.
FAO Pollution Manual One outcome of the 1970 FAO technical conference on Marine Pollution and its Effects on Living Resources and Fishing, was the collaboration of the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) with FAO in developing a series of training courses in the field of marine pollution. Three courses have already been held, and there is to be a fourth in autumn 1975. The second course was arranged for research workers from developing countries and was oriented towards planning and conduct of research and monitoring activities, giving training in techniques and equipment currently used for the detection, measurement and monitoring of pollutants in the aquatic environment. FAO has now produced a manual, mainly based on papers presented at that training course. It is divided into a theoretical part with papers on general aspects and problems of analyzing aquatic samples, and a practical part describing methods for measuring physical and chemical parameters, including the different classes of pollutants in the aquatic environment. The manual has had a restricted distribution. (FAO Manual of methods in aquatic environment research. Part I. Methods for detection, measurement and monitoring of water pollution. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. 137,238pp., 1975).
the pollution of the environment. The main annual report appears in Japanese, but there is also a shorter version in English, including selected papers from the main report. This English edition includes a paper on the water quality of Tokyo Bay, an area of 1000 km 2 . Twenty per cent of Japan's population lives within reach of the Bay, and the industrial plants, whose effluents go into the rivers bordering the bay, account for 27 per cent of the nation's total production. The three prefectures bordering the bay, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa, have cooperated in a three year study of the bay, to collect data on the state of pollution and to help formulate measures to abate water pollution in the area. The paper concludes that some areas of the bay close to the shore are permanently polluted, and that others further offshore are affected at certain times of the year. Measures suggested include reducing the inflow of organic matter, and reducing the inflow of nitrogen and phosphorus. (Annual Report of the Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection, 1975. 2-7-1 Yuraku-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
European Environmental Regulations Stichting CONCAWE has published a new survey of environmental regulations of concern to the oil industry in Western Europe. It includes tables of standard specifications and legal limits for gasoline composition and quality, regulations on refinery effluents, regulations, standards, technical requirements and codes of practice for the design, construction and operation of oil pipelines, and much other useful information. Copies of the report, No. 6/75 are available free from: Stichting CONCAWE, 60 Van Hogenhoucklaan, The Hague, 2018, Netherlands.
Celtic Sea Oil It now seems likely that drilling in the UK sector of the Celtic Sea will really get going this summer. Some companies are being very tight-lipped about their plans, but Amoco have said that, providing uncertainties over the availability of a rig could be overcome, they hoped to get started in early summer. Along with several other licensees, they are also exploring the possibilities of sharing a rig, bearing in mind the rapidly escalating costs of exploration, and the distance from the main centre of operations in the North Sea. It is thought that the British Gas Corporation, the French state-backed Elf Exploration, and Shell Expro may also get started this year. The British Gas Corporation is hoping to drill two or three wells in their Morecambe Bay blocks later this year, and also to start work in a block off Fishguard, while Shell is thought to be waiting for their semi-submersible Staflo to finish work in the North Sea before transferring it to the Celtic Sea.
Tokyo Annual Report The Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection has recently produced its annual report, detailing through papers on a wide variety of pollution subjects, the city's efforts to monitor, remove and prevent 116
Pollution from Artificial Reefs? Rubber tyres have been used for a number of years in the construction of artificial reefs, to encourage populations of reef fish for sport fishing in areas lacking a rough bottom. For example there are now over 100 artificial reefs off the East coast of the United States. As the number of tyre reefs has increased, some scientists have asked whether any toxic materials in the tyres might leach out into the seawater and pollute or harm the fish. At last some research has been done in the United States, and the results have been recently published. (Mar. Fish. Rev., 37, (3), 18-20, 1975). Pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides)and black sea bass (Centropristis striata) were put in tanks containing tyres and analyzed for zinc, organochlorine pesticides and PCB's after periods of from 3 to 15 weeks. (It was thought that the tyres might become contaminated with PCB's and pesticides during their use or after being discarded). In another experiment holes were cut in the tyres to increase water circulation. No change with time was found in the levels of PCB's, organochlorine pesticides and zinc between the control and experimental fish, and the authors of the paper conclude that as field studies of tyre reefs demonstrate their potential to increase coastal fishery resources,
One volume contains edited papers of the BIICL international conference on 'New Directions in the Law of the Sea', held in London in February 1973. The set of four volumes is available for £33, or volumes can be purchased separately. For details contact: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 32 Fumival Street, London EC4A 1JN.
FAO Pollution Manual One outcome of the 1970 FAO technical conference on Marine Pollution and its Effects on Living Resources and Fishing, was the collaboration of the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) with FAO in developing a series of training courses in the field of marine pollution. Three courses have already been held, and there is to be a fourth in autumn 1975. The second course was arranged for research workers from developing countries and was oriented towards planning and conduct of research and monitoring activities, giving training in techniques and equipment currently used for the detection, measurement and monitoring of pollutants in the aquatic environment. FAO has now produced a manual, mainly based on papers presented at that training course. It is divided into a theoretical part with papers on general aspects and problems of analyzing aquatic samples, and a practical part describing methods for measuring physical and chemical parameters, including the different classes of pollutants in the aquatic environment. The manual has had a restricted distribution. (FAO Manual of methods in aquatic environment research. Part I. Methods for detection, measurement and monitoring of water pollution. FAO Fish. Tech. Pap. 137,238pp., 1975).
the pollution of the environment. The main annual report appears in Japanese, but there is also a shorter version in English, including selected papers from the main report. This English edition includes a paper on the water quality of Tokyo Bay, an area of 1000 km 2 . Twenty per cent of Japan's population lives within reach of the Bay, and the industrial plants, whose effluents go into the rivers bordering the bay, account for 27 per cent of the nation's total production. The three prefectures bordering the bay, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa, have cooperated in a three year study of the bay, to collect data on the state of pollution and to help formulate measures to abate water pollution in the area. The paper concludes that some areas of the bay close to the shore are permanently polluted, and that others further offshore are affected at certain times of the year. Measures suggested include reducing the inflow of organic matter, and reducing the inflow of nitrogen and phosphorus. (Annual Report of the Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection, 1975. 2-7-1 Yuraku-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan).
European Environmental Regulations Stichting CONCAWE has published a new survey of environmental regulations of concern to the oil industry in Western Europe. It includes tables of standard specifications and legal limits for gasoline composition and quality, regulations on refinery effluents, regulations, standards, technical requirements and codes of practice for the design, construction and operation of oil pipelines, and much other useful information. Copies of the report, No. 6/75 are available free from: Stichting CONCAWE, 60 Van Hogenhoucklaan, The Hague, 2018, Netherlands.
Celtic Sea Oil It now seems likely that drilling in the UK sector of the Celtic Sea will really get going this summer. Some companies are being very tight-lipped about their plans, but Amoco have said that, providing uncertainties over the availability of a rig could be overcome, they hoped to get started in early summer. Along with several other licensees, they are also exploring the possibilities of sharing a rig, bearing in mind the rapidly escalating costs of exploration, and the distance from the main centre of operations in the North Sea. It is thought that the British Gas Corporation, the French state-backed Elf Exploration, and Shell Expro may also get started this year. The British Gas Corporation is hoping to drill two or three wells in their Morecambe Bay blocks later this year, and also to start work in a block off Fishguard, while Shell is thought to be waiting for their semi-submersible Staflo to finish work in the North Sea before transferring it to the Celtic Sea.
Tokyo Annual Report The Tokyo Metropolitan Research Institute for Environmental Protection has recently produced its annual report, detailing through papers on a wide variety of pollution subjects, the city's efforts to monitor, remove and prevent 116
Pollution from Artificial Reefs? Rubber tyres have been used for a number of years in the construction of artificial reefs, to encourage populations of reef fish for sport fishing in areas lacking a rough bottom. For example there are now over 100 artificial reefs off the East coast of the United States. As the number of tyre reefs has increased, some scientists have asked whether any toxic materials in the tyres might leach out into the seawater and pollute or harm the fish. At last some research has been done in the United States, and the results have been recently published. (Mar. Fish. Rev., 37, (3), 18-20, 1975). Pinfish (Lagodon rhomboides)and black sea bass (Centropristis striata) were put in tanks containing tyres and analyzed for zinc, organochlorine pesticides and PCB's after periods of from 3 to 15 weeks. (It was thought that the tyres might become contaminated with PCB's and pesticides during their use or after being discarded). In another experiment holes were cut in the tyres to increase water circulation. No change with time was found in the levels of PCB's, organochlorine pesticides and zinc between the control and experimental fish, and the authors of the paper conclude that as field studies of tyre reefs demonstrate their potential to increase coastal fishery resources,