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Exceptions and exemptions under the ballast water management convention – Sustainable alternatives for ballast water management? [PDF]
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 ...
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Key Ballast Water Management Regulations With a View on Ballast Water Management Systems Type Approval Process [PDF]
Naše More (Dubrovnik), 2019 Over the last few decades, the spread of invasive aquatic organisms via ships’ ballast water became one of the global environmental issues of most concern.
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Frontiers in Marine ScienceShips’ 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 ...
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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 ...
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Diagnostics in ballast water management [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Diagnostics in ballast water management is the main remedy to protect against the threat of spreading invasive species that can be carried in ships' ballast tanks. This phenomenon is getting better known and understood.
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Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2019 Along with the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United States Maritime Administration has developed its own ballast water management legislation under the dual authority of the US Coast Guard and the Environmental Protection Agency. The IMO
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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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Monitoring Alien Species Diversity in Ballast Water Based on Environmental DNA Metabarcoding [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionInvasive 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.
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Emerging risks from ballast water treatment: The run-up to the International Ballast Water Management Convention [PDF]
Chemosphere, 2014 Uptake and discharge of ballast water by ocean-going ships contribute to the worldwide spread of aquatic invasive species, with negative impacts on the environment, economies, and public health. The International Ballast Water Management Convention aims at a global answer.
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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.
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