| bioremediation of coastal areas 5 years after the nakhodka oil spill in the sea of japan: isolation and characterization of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria. | five years after the 1997 nakhodka oil spill in the sea of japan, seven bacterial strains capable of utilizing the heavy oil spilled from the nakhodka russian oil tanker were isolated from three coastal areas (namely katano seashore of fukui prefecture, osawa and atake seashores of ishikawa prefecture) and the nakhodka russian oil tanker after a 5-year bioremediation process. all bacterial strains isolated could utilize long-chain-length alkanes efficiently, but not aromatic, and all of them wer ... | 2004 | 15196839 |