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Press release « Trefin Adam » - National Park of La Maddalena Archipelago et Office de l’Environnement de la Corse (authority of the Natural reserve of Bonifacio Strait) On January 27th 2012 at 5 p.m, a French Navy patrol plane, preventing intentional sea pollution, spotted a leak of twelve kilometers long and two hundred meters wide, in the wake of a small-sized Maltese tankerwhich had just cross the Strait of Bonifacio from east to west.

The Strait of Bonifacio and adjacent areas have been identified as PSSA ("Particularly Sensitive Sea Area"), a designation that can introduce measures to strengthen the protection of the environment, due to the the importance and fragility of the region.