abstract: Tamanskij Bay opens into the Kerch Strait which connects the Black and the Azov seas and houses the shallow ecosystem which is the most important in the Russian part of the Black Sea. This ecosystem is dominated by sea grasses (Zostera marina etc). We have been studying bottom sediment hydrocarbons distribution and biomarkers of the pollution in Mytilus galloprovincialis for two years after the wreck of "Volgoneft' 139" and spilling of more than 1.5 thousand t of residual oil in the Kerch Strait
journal: Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences