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Transmission of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in simulated ballast water confirms the potential for ship-born spread [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2022
Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) remains an unprecedented epizootic disease, representing a substantial threat to the persistence and health of coral reef ecosystems in the Tropical Western Atlantic since its first observation near Miami, Florida ...
Michael S. Studivan, Michelle Baptist, Vanessa Molina, Scott Riley, Matthew First, Nash Soderberg, Ewelina Rubin, Ashley Rossin, Daniel M. Holstein, Ian C. Enochs   +9 more
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Simulated Discharge of Ballast Water Reveals Potential Contribution to Spread of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Geographically Isolated Receiving Waters [PDF]

Antibiotics
Background/Objectives: The propagation of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) poses a huge threat to environmental and human health. The ballast water from ships has been recognized as an important vector of ARGs.
Jianhong Shi, Chengyuan Ji, Rui Wang, Chaoli Sun, Baoyi Lv   +4 more
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Exceptions and exemptions under the ballast water management convention – Sustainable alternatives for ballast water management?

Journal of Environmental Management, 2021
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM Convention) aims to mitigate the introduction risk of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens (HAOP) via ships' ballast water and sediments. The BWM Convention has set regulations for ships to utilise exceptions and exemptions from ballast water ...
Okko Outinen, Sarah A Bailey, Joel Chasse   +2 more
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Monitoring Alien Species Diversity in Ballast Water Based on Environmental DNA Metabarcoding [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Invasive alien species pose serious threats to ecosystems, public health, and socio‐economic systems, with ballast water discharge serving as a major pathway for their introduction.
Hanglei Li, Hui Jia, Jingbo Peng, Xiaofeng Peng, Zhipeng Ren, Hui Zhang   +5 more
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Biological testing of ships’ ballast water indicates challenges for the implementation of the Ballast Water Management Convention

Frontiers in Marine Science
Ships’ ballast water and sediments are vectors that contribute to the unintentional spread of aquatic non-native species globally. Ballast water management, as well as commissioning testing of ballast water management systems and compliance monitoring ...
Okko Outinen, Sarah A. Bailey, Oscar Casas-Monroy, Stephanie Delacroix, Sonia Gorgula, Evelina Griniene, Jenni E. Kakkonen, Greta Srebaliene   +7 more
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Temporal modelling of ballast water discharge and ship-mediated invasion risk to Australia [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2015
Biological invasions have the potential to cause extensive ecological and economic damage. Maritime trade facilitates biological invasions by transferring species in ballast water, and on ships' hulls.
Robert C. Cope, Thomas A. A. Prowse, Joshua V. Ross, Talia A. Wittmann, Phillip Cassey   +4 more
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A generic ballast water discharge assessment model as a decision supporting tool in ballast water management

Decision Support Systems, 2012
One of the critical issues in species invasion ecology is the need to understand and evaluate the dimensions and processes of aquatic organisms transfer with vessels ballast water. The assessment of the quantity of ballast water discharged as the medium of transfer is one of the basic elements of the decision making process in ballast water risk ...
Matej David, Marko Perkovic, Valter Suban   +2 more
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Reusing system of the ballast water [PDF]

إبداعات تربوية, 2021
Increasing water consumption is a problem faced by the world; one of its solutions is reusing water. Reuse is about changing processes that result in polluted water byproducts so that the resulting water is usable again. Our solution is to reuse ballast water in transporting oil.
Kirollos Remon Mounir Hozin, Fady Bola Samir, Youssef Khaled Serag El-Den, Moataz Mohamed Sabry   +3 more
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Potential Applications of a Novel Ballast Water Pretreatment Device: Grinding Device

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2021
To investigate the removal efficiency of the grinding device (GD) as a potential replacement for the pretreatment filtration device of ballast water, solid grinding and viability experiment were conducted according to a treatment flow rate of 5 tons ...
Bonggil Hyun, Hyung-Gon Cha, Yeong-Kyu An, Yong-Seok Park, Min-Chul Jang, Pung-Guk Jang, Kyoungsoon Shin   +6 more
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Toxicity of Antifouling Biocides and Wastes from Ships’ Surfaces during High-Pressure Water-Blasting Cleaning Activities in the Nauplii and Eggs of the Estuarine Copepod Paracalanus parvus sl

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022
Copepods, the dominant member of zooplankton and major grazers of phytoplankton in the pelagic ecosystem, are at risk from exposure to antifouling biocides.
Bonggil Hyun, Pung-Guk Jang, Kyoungsoon Shin, Moonkoo Kim, Ju-Hak Jung, Hyung-Gon Cha, Min-Chul Jang   +6 more
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