SPAIN Near Sanxenxo -- 15/12/2002 -- Aerial view of an unidentified fishing town on the Galician coast.

SPAIN Near Sanxenxo -- 15/12/2002 -- Aerial view of an unidentified fishing town on the Galician coast. Galicia has a larger fleet of fishing boats than the rest of Europe put together. Now most of it is docked in hundreds of ports like this along the NW Spanish coast. Except for those engaged in literally fishing for oil like these trawlers pictured. Thousands of tonnes of heavy fuel oil has contaminated large swathes of the north-western coast of Spain after the tanker Prestige sank in late November 2002. The ship was carrying around 77,000 tonnes of fuel oil, a lot of which has leaked into the sea causing a ecological disaster along much of the southern Atlantic coast of Europe. The cost of the disaster is estimated at over 20 billion Euros. Thousands of volunteers and military personnel are involved in the clean-up operation which could last for six months