1st International Ballast Water Treatment Standards Workshop
The introduction of harmful aquatic organisms and pathogens to new environments, including via
ships’ ballast water, has been identified as one of the four greatest threats to the world’s oceans. It is
estimated that a foreign marine species is introduced to a new environment somewhere in the world
every nine weeks. Human health, ecological and economic impacts can be severe.
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