[Bioecological consequences of an accidental hydrocarbon discharge on the rocky shore of the high Normandy coast. Results one year after the oil pollution on the november 26th 1974].

We have followed, during one year, the ecological consequences of an accidental oil pollution on four rocky shores of the norman coast. In the shores where the detergents have not been used, the mussels have progressively excreted the hydrocarbons accumulated in their organism ; the other fixed animals have not been changed. In the shores where the detergents have been used their spreading had not only noxious demoecological consequences, but also synecological consequences with modifications of the fixed species which have colonized the rocks. These observations prove that the use of detergents to clean the polluted shores is not without care.