In spite of strengthened oil spill prevention efforts, many spill accidents happened through the years showed that these kinds of accidents might occur at any time over the world. So it is necessary to prepare detailed response planning in advance for making effective use of resources required during spill accidents. Primary goal of oil spill response should be to minimize the ecological impact of oil spill. Ecological impacts are long lasting and hard to repair, so cleaningup of vulnerable area should be done under the supervisions of ecologists. To make effective use of resources, many agencies participating in spill response have to make some agreement on what, on how, precisely spill response should be done.

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