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Red Sea oil slick makes landfall north of marine reserve

calendar_monthMarch 18, 2012

Red Sea oil slick makes landfall north of marine reserve

In early 2011, the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association discovered an outbreak of crown-of-thorns starfish, a foreign invasive species that has devastated large sections of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. In the same month, the Egyptian Navy detained three Egyptian fishing trawlers illegally fishing in the Red Sea.