Fishermen go hunting for oil

Fishermen trying to protect Europe’s richest shellfish beds frantically deployed their nets and other equipment today to scoop thick globs of oil from the sea as slicks from a sunken tanker spread along Spain’s Galician coast.

Meanwhile, a French research submarine was scheduled to make its second dive to confirm preliminary results that there were no new leaks from the wreck of the Prestige , which is lying on the Atlantic Ocean bed 155 miles off the coast.