Alternative ways of reducing the risk of invasion

Improved ship designs could reduce the need for complex ballast treatment onboard

Craig Eason - Tuesday 9 February 2010

THERE is more than one way to skin a cat, as the saying goes, and the same is true for preventing aquatic flora and fauna from being transplanted into a new environment where it can cause devastation.

The ballast water management convention has been written with a focus on treating the ballast water to effectively kill off everything in it, making...

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