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Spanish Fishermen Collect Mussels Before Fuel Oil Slick Reaches El Grove on Northwest Coast
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SPAIN: November 21, 2002
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Spanish fishermen collect mussels and shellfish in the richest area for seafood in Spain before a fuel oil slick reaches the El Grove area on November 20, 2002.
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A tanker laden with 70,000 tonnes of fuel oil split in two and sank off northwest Spain triggering what ecologists said could become one of the world's worst oil spills.
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Story by DB
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Photo by MIGUEL VIDAL
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