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Invaders From the Sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JkRtMTEdI This film gives a unique insight into an important environmental issue: the transfer of harmful organisms in ships' ballast water. Filmed by the internationally renowned BBC Wildvision, this amazing story looks at how this phenomenon is affecting our coasts and millions of lives around the world and the measures taken by the global community to fight against these alien stowaways.In the starting, I was frank with you propecia before and after has changed my life. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is improbable to sit.

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California issues Marine Invasive Species report

  The California State Lands Commission (SLC) has issued its 2015 Biennial Report on the California Marine Invasive Species Program referring to California’s ballast water management program and hull husbandry program. The report notes that no currently available ballast water management system meets California performance standards. Key issues Eighty-four percent (84%) of the 18,739 qualifying voyage arrivals to California ports between July 2012 and June 2014 retained all ballast water on board. These arrivals posed no risk for species introductions associated with ballast water discharges. Some vessels, however, must discharge ballast due to cargo operations, navigation, and/or safety concerns. As ships increase in size, so does the capacity of their ballast water tanks and the volume of ballast water discharged. Since 2004, the total volume of ballast water discharged in California has increased 96% from 3.5 million metric tons (MMT) (2004a) to 6.9 MMT (2014a). The increase in the volume of discharged ballast water in California is driven, in large part, by bulk vessels. Bulk vessels accounted for only 8% of vessel arrivals to California between July 2012 and June 2014, yet were responsible for 45% of total volume of ballast water discharged during that same time period. Moreover, the ...

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Invaders From the Sea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JkRtMTEdI This film gives a unique insight into an important environmental issue: the transfer of harmful organisms in ships' ballast water. Filmed by the internationally renowned BBC Wildvision, this amazing story looks at how this phenomenon is affecting our coasts and millions of lives around the world and the measures taken by the global community to fight against these alien stowaways.In the outbreak, I was explicit with you propecia before and after has changed my being. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is improbable to sit.

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Invasive species in the Great Lakes by 2063

The Great Lakes have been invaded by more non-native species than any other freshwater ecosystem in the world. In spite of increasing efforts to stem the tide of invasion threats, the lakes remain vulnerable, according to scientists from McGill University and colleagues in Canada and the United States. If no new regulations are enforced, they predict new waves of invasions and identify some species that could invade the Lakes over the next 50 years. Over the past two centuries, more than 180 non-native species have been recorded in the Great Lakes and the rivers that flow into them. Nearly 20% of these species are considered to be harmful ecologically and economically, posing threats to the Lakes' native biodiversity and multibillion dollar fishery. New threats are emerging because of risks associated with trade in live organisms and climate change, the researchers caution in a study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research. Effective legislation? In recent years, the pace of species invasions appears to have slowed dramatically, as measures have been taken to protect the lakes. This is why the three scenarios (optimistic, pessimistic and status quo) the researchers considered for the next 50 years hinge on the implementation and effectiveness ...

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BWTS tests show systems are flawed

According to media, a new report published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin unveils that laboratory testing of treatment systems don't adequately measure BWTS effectiveness against three disease-carrying microbes that the regulations target. One of them, E. coli, can indicate the presence of fecal sewage. US EPA and the Coast Guard have set limits on the number of live organisms ballast water can contain, based on standards proposed by an international agency in 2004. To comply, ship companies must install technology that kills enough creatures to meet the limits. The Coast Guard declined to comment and EPA had no immediate reaction to the report. Further details may be found by reading relevant article on ABC News Tests of Ballast Water Treatment Systems are Flawed     In the outbreak, I was forthright with you propecia before and after has changed my existence. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is incredible to sit.

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Interferry welcomes IMO move to consider Ballast Water exemption

Interferry has praised a decision at last week’s meeting of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) that could exempt certain ferry operators from fitting equipment required by the impending Ballast Water Management Convention to reduce the spread of invasive species.       In a joint submission with Denmark, the trade association argued that ballast water management systems were irrelevant for ships continuously operating in the same body of water, such as between the UK and Ireland.  The MEPC responded by agreeing that one of its sub-committees should further consider the issue – including how appropriate operators could obtain an exemption certificate. Interferry’s director of regulatory affairs Johan Roos comments: “This is a very welcome step in the light of mounting concerns by short sea operators in general and ferry operators in particular.  We recognise the need to act on the movement of invasive species between geographical areas where natural spread does not occur, but in our view there is no added value to the environment by destroying organisms that may spread naturally.” The case for exemptions has mainly been voiced by North Sea and Baltic countries, but last week the governments of Croatia and Singapore also raised their ...

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Final Shipping Industry Lobbying for Ballast Convention Solution

Before next upcoming IMO Meeting The global shipping industry, comprising about 70,000 ships, is expected to have to invest around $US100 Billion in new ballast water treatment systems once the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Ballast Water Management Convention enters into force, probably during 2016.The industry fully supports the objectives of the IMO Convention and the standards that governments have set for killing unwanted marine micro-organisms that can be transported in ships' ballast water.But shipping companies still lack confidence that the very expensive new equipment required will be regarded as fully compliant by governments, even though it has been typed-approved, unless serious implementation problems with the Convention are addressed at next week's crucial meeting of the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC).The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and its member national shipowners' associations are therefore now engaged in a final flurry of lobbying, following an extensive campaign with governments over several years.The issues that governments need to address include the lack of robustness of the current IMO type-approval process for the expensive new treatment equipment, the criteria to be used for sampling ballast water during Port State Control inspections, and the need for 'grandfathering' of type-approved equipment already or about to ...

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Updated BWTS list accepted by the USCG

Last Update on 3 September 2014 The U.S. Coast Guard has updated the list of the Ballast Water Treatment Systems (BWTS) accepted for use in US water as Alternate Management Systems (AMS) The ballast water treatment systems (BWTS) in the list below have been accepted for use in U.S. waters as Alternate Management Systems (AMS). Use of a BWTS as an AMS is subject to the general and specific conditions and requirements listed in the AMS acceptance letter issued to the system's manufacturer. An AMS may be used to meet the Coast Guard ballast water treatment requirements for up to five years after the ship's ballast water discharge standard compliance date specified in the final rule.  This five-year timeframe allows for the completion of required land-based and shipboard testing.   (Click image below to enlarge) In the beginning, I was outspoken with you propecia before and after has changed my being. It has become much more fun, and now I have to run. Just as it is incredible to sit.

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