A new animation video produced by the German Maritime and Hydrographic Agency who is one of the GloFouling strategic partners, explains the issue of invasive species and its link to biofouling and recreational boating in the Baltic Sea.
The movie provides information on the spread of non-indigenous species by recreational boats and what measures can help to reduce this biofouling. This film was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV) in the context of the BMDV Network of Experts (formerly: BMVI Network of Experts).
IMO explains that the introduction of invasive aquatic species to new environments by ships has been identified as a major threat to the world’s oceans and to the conservation of biodiversity. A multitude of marine species, carried either in ships’ ballast water or on ships’ hulls, may survive to establish a reproductive population in the host environment, becoming invasive, out-competing native species and multiplying into pest proportions.
Invasive aquatic species are introduced to new environments by ships mainly through ballast water or hull fouling.
