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Cleaning oil slicks In the past three years the French Atlantic coast was hit by two major oil slicks, due to the cargo ships the Erika and the Prestige. The coastal environment and ecosystem was extremely damaged, which in consequence had negative impacts on the coastal economy. To diminish the disaster the French government sent out the army, but wasn’t unable to help or finance every town on the coast needing their seashore to be cleaned up. So communities like Prefaille’s, small town where I participated in the cleaning, got their town halls to initiate cleaning procedure. Volunteer cleaning sessions were organized and special working groups were hired to take over the hard and painful work of cleaning the greasy fuel. After either one of the oil slicks the economy of coastal activities was negatively influenced. The maritime environment and ecosystem was injured. Many algae, home of diverse fauna, fish, and seashells, and more were contaminated as well as many oyster cultures. In consequence fishermen were