Oil pollution in the Red Sea — Environmental monitoring of an oilfield in a coral area, Gulf of Suez

1984 ◽  
Vol 31 (6-8) ◽  
pp. 833-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Dicks
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Gulf Of Suez ◽  
Coral Area

Oil pollution of the Egyptian Red Sea and Gulf of Suez and its effects on birds

1985 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
W.R.P. Bourne
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Gulf Of Suez

CHALLENGES OF OIL SPILL RESPONSE IN EGYPTIAN COASTAL ZONE OVERLOOKING THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE RED SEA*

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (1) ◽  
pp. 559-565
Author(s):  
H. Bashat
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Exposure ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Gulf Of Suez ◽  
High Exposure ◽  
The Road ◽  
Oil Spill Response ◽  
The Mediterranean

ABSTRACT The rapid growth of economic development in Egypt over the last few decades has led to numerous offshore projects, expanding maritime facilities and a vast spread of coastal tourist developments. However, adequate capacity building of existing national oil spill response facilities did not complement such growth. This has resulted in an imbalance between the degree of environmental exposure and level of preparedness to respond to potential oil and chemical spills that may occur along these highly sensitive coastal areas and to the marine environment of Egypt. Both the Red Sea and Mediterranean coasts of Egypt support thriving ecosystems and a substantial tourist industry centered around golden beaches, crystalline waters, and a plethora of plant and animal species that exist nowhere else on earth. At the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula Ras Mohammad National Park alone shelters over 130 species of coral and 116 species of fish. Only a few kilometers away, the Gulf of Suez is one of the worlds busiest industrial shipping routes. More than 117 million tons of oil pass through Egyptian waters each year and cross Egypt's main land through the SUMED pipeline from Ain Sukhna terminal (at the head of the Gulf of Suez) to Sidi Krir terminal on the Mediterranean. Another 28 to 30 million tons of oil go through the Suez Canal directly and there is a 15000-ship movement every year in Egypt. The Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency (EEAA) has updated a National Oil Spill Contingency Plan (NOSCP), prepared in 1986 by the petroleum sector, in 1998. The NOSCP is the national framework for action in the event of an oil pollution incident. Updating, the NOSCP was just the beginning and not the end of the road. Challenges to take forward necessary action at all response levels to ensure efficiency of application of the NOSCP are enormous. Over the last few years concerned parties and stakeholders conducted several investigations and assessment to identify critical areas of concern and high exposure. Many assessment reports have identified gaps and addressed required measures needed to enhance bridging those gaps and restore the required balance between exposure and preparedness to recover from this situation. This paper considers the present status of the imbalance between environmental exposure and oil spill response preparedness along Egyptian coastline, describes current status of the NOSCP and the recovery measures taken to improve the situation and ensure credible response to potential major spills.

scholarly journals Assessment of three nemipterid stocks based on trawl surveys in the Gulf of Suez, Red Sea

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. El-Ganainy ◽  
M.T. Khalil ◽  
E.E.E. El-Bokhty ◽  
M.A. Saber ◽  
F.A.A. Abd El-Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Gulf Of Suez ◽  
Trawl Surveys

Checklist of the Red Sea Fishes with delineation of the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, endemism and Lessepsian migrants

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4509 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL GOLANI ◽  
RONALD FRICKE
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Endemic Species ◽  
Gulf Of Aqaba ◽  
Gulf Of Suez ◽  
Actual Number ◽  
Suez Gulf ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Main Basin ◽  
Lessepsian Migrants ◽  
Current List

The current checklist provides for each species of the Red Sea its records in the Gulf of Suez, Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea main basin and its general distribution.This new checklist of Red Sea fishes enumerates 1207 species, representing 164 families. Of these, 797 species were recorded from the Gulf of Aqaba and 339 from the Gulf of Suez. The number of species from the Gulf of Suez is evidently lower than the actual number not including 27 Lessepsian (Red Sea) migrants to the Mediterranean that most likely occur in the Gulf. The current list includes 73 species that were newly described for science since the last checklist of 2010. The most specious Osteichthyes families are: Gobiidae (134 species), Labridae (66), Apogonidae (59), Serranidae (including Anthiadinae) (44), Blenniidae (42), Carangidae (38), Muraenidae (36), Pomacentridae (35), Syngnathidae (34), Scorpaenidae (24) and Lutjanidae (23). Among the families of Chondrichthyes, the most specious families are the Carcharhinidae (18 species) and Dasyatidae (11). The total number of endemic species in the Red Sea is 174 species, of these, 34 species are endemic to the Gulf of Aqaba and 8 to the Gulf of Suez. 

The population biology of penaeid prawns in the Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, Egypt

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azza A. El-Ganainy ◽  
Mohamed H. Yassien
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Population Biology ◽  
Gulf Of Suez

scholarly journals Growth , Mortality and Relative Yield per Recruit of Japanese Scad Decapterus Maruadsi ( Temminck and Schlegel , 1842 ) in the Gulf of Suez , Red Sea , Egypt

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Mahmoud H. M. Ahmed ◽  
Magdy T. Khalil ◽  
Sahar F. Mehanna ◽  
Sameh B. El-Kafrawy ◽  
Asaar S. H. El-Sherbeny
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Relative Yield ◽  
Gulf Of Suez ◽  
Yield Per Recruit ◽  
Decapterus Maruadsi

Structure, sedimentation, and basin dynamics during rifting of the Gulf of Suez and north-western Red Sea

1998 ◽  
pp. 77-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bosworth ◽  
P. Crevello ◽  
R. D. Winn ◽  
J. Steinmetz
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Gulf Of Suez ◽  
North Western

Reef-stromatolites-evaporites facies relationships from middle miocene examples of the gulf of Suez and the red sea

2005 ◽  
pp. 133-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
C.L.V. Monty ◽  
J.M. Rouchy ◽  
A. Maurin ◽  
M.C. Bernet-Rollande ◽  
J.P. Perthuisot
Keyword(s):  
Red Sea ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Gulf Of Suez
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