Basic Education Department, University of San Carlos, Cebu City 6000, Philippines.
Basic Education Department, University of San Carlos, Cebu City 6000, Philippines; Marine Biology Section, Biology Department, University of San Carlos, Cebu City 6000, Philippines.
Mar Pollut Bull. 2022 Dec;185(Pt A):114241. doi: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114241. Epub 2022 Oct 21.
As an archipelago, the Philippines is heavily engaged in domestic and foreign shipping activities which makes it highly vulnerable to oil pollution. It is the purpose of this present paper to make a follow-up review of the oil spill situation in the Philippines which provides analysis and evaluation of aquatic oil spills in the past 22 years. Results showed that the frequency and volume of oil spills generally occur in areas with high maritime traffic and experienced short-term decreases on periods affected by economic recessions. The sources and causes of oil spills are discussed while examining the possible influences of the changing climate. While, these had been identified, there is a gap in the incident reporting of oil spills. It is recommended that data records on oil spill incidents in the Philippines be systematic, consistent and comprehensively entail information not limited to date, locality, source, cause, and spillage amount.
作为一个群岛国家,菲律宾国内和国际贸易运输频繁,这使其极易受到石油污染的影响。本文旨在对菲律宾的溢油情况进行后续审查,对过去 22 年的水上溢油事故进行分析和评估。结果表明,溢油事故的频率和数量通常发生在海上交通繁忙的地区,且在经济衰退时期会出现短期减少。在考察气候变化可能产生的影响的同时,对溢油的来源和原因进行了讨论。虽然已经确定了这些因素,但在溢油事故的报告方面仍存在差距。因此建议菲律宾系统地、一致地、全面地记录溢油事故数据,所包含的信息不仅限于日期、地点、来源、原因和溢油量。