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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 To prevent the invasion of alien species, the International Maritime Organization and the United States Costal Guard require that a ballast water management system (BWMS) be installed on ships to treat the ballast water before discharging it.
Pung-Guk Jang +6 more
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Do Ballast Water Management Systems Reduce Phytoplankton Introductions to Canadian Waters?
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Global coastal aquatic ecosystems are negatively impacted by the introduction of harmful aquatic species through the discharge of ships’ ballast water. To reduce discharges of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens, such as toxic phytoplankton species ...
Oscar Casas-Monroy, Sarah A. Bailey
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2020 An in situ mesocosm experiment was performed to investigate the combined effects of ocean acidification and warming on the coastal phytoplankton standing stock and species composition of a eutrophic coastal area in the temperate-subtropical region ...
Bonggil Hyun +8 more
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Water Science and Technology, 2023 In recent years, the issue of invasive alien species brought on by ballast water has drawn increasing attention, and advances in ballast water treatment technologies have been made.
Yanan Wang +4 more
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The cadets' understanding of the ballast water management convention [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 The International Maritime Organization (IMO) since September 8, 2017, has implemented the Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention as an effort to protect the maritime environment from ballast water pollution.
El Husna Iksiroh +3 more
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The biological content of ballast water in China: A review
Aquaculture and Fisheries, 2017 The introduction of species through the release of ballast water has become a major threats to marine biodiversity and ecosystem function worldwide. China is one of the top trading countries, yet little is known about exotic species in the ballast water ...
Huixian Wu +4 more
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Ballast water allocation optimization of crane vessels based on MOEA/D algorithm
Zhongguo Jianchuan Yanjiu, 2021 ObjectivesTo improve the efficiency of the ballast water allocation of crane vessels and reduce energy consumption in this process, an optimization method following a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) is proposed ...
Jia ZHOU, Lei SONG
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Aquaculture and Fisheries, 2019 Previous studies have found differences between communities of benthic macroinvertebrates living in constructed tidal flats compared with natural ones.
Junzeng Xue +4 more
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Analysis of Ballast Water Discharged in Port—A Case Study of the Port of Ploče (Croatia)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022 Ballast water is recognized as a major vector for the transfer of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens (HAOP) and a source of sea pollution that negatively affects the environment and human health.
Nermin Hasanspahić +3 more
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Sampling Methodologies and Approaches for Ballast Water Management Compliance Monitoring
Promet (Zagreb), 2011 The human-mediated transfer of harmful organisms via shipping, especially via ballast water transport, has raised considerable attention especially in the last decade due to the negative associated impacts.
Stephan Gollasch, Matej David
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