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A guide to designing legal and institutional frameworks on alien invasive species
… Box 6. Ballast Water … 18 Box 13. Water Hyacinth … 2.2.2.3 Introductions to Inland Water Systems … the Risk of Transferring Harmful Aquatic Organisms with Ballast Water … 32 Box 19. International Cooperation on Ballast Water Management ...............................32 …
Introduction to the International Legal Framework on Marine Biodiversity - extract from InforMEA e-learning course
… is the Baltic Sea, which is the largest body of brackish water in the world and contains many unique habitats that … merchant vessels up-taking and discharging water used for ballast tanks, which mainly serve to ensure a vessel’s … of accidental introduction of alien species through ballast water are experienced throughout the globe. For …
European Union overseas coastal and marine protected areas - overview of coastal and marine conservation efforts in the European Union's overseas countries and territories and outermost regions
… measuring the breadth of the territorial sea) is the low-water line along the coast as marked on large- scale charts … part II, section 2) The territorial sea is a belt of water not exceeding 12 nm in width measured from the … Some people believed that lionfish escaped when ships’ ballast tanks were emptied during the 1980s Other theories …