Sentences with phrase «around ballast water»

Successful examples include projects around ballast water, seaweed, tidal energy and deep - sea mining.

Not exact matches

With 50 ships traveling through the canal daily, swapping around 10 million tons of ballast water annually between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean, it's no surprise the Suez is a hotbed for species invasion.

The notorious sea creature shipped around by ballast waters devastated Black Sea fisheries in the 1990s.

With that water come plants, animals, bacteria, and viruses that move around the globe aboard the ships, to be deposited wherever the vessels dump ballast to accommodate changing loads.

First noticed near the Great Lakes around 1988, these mollusks presumably arrived in the ballast water of ships coming over from Europe.

The continued development of maritime transportation around the world, especially in new areas such as the Arctic, can increase conservation impacts to wildlife, including disturbance, fatal strikes, introduction of pathogens through ballast water, habitat destruction through anchoring (especially on corals), introduction of invasive species, air emis ¬ sions, noise, and fuel spills.

Around a decade later an unknown ship, probably from the Bay of Bengal, discharged ballast water into the coastal waters of Peru, releasing a strain of cholera that contaminated shellfish.

of ballast and placed individually on the sea floor in water from 51 to 25» deep, usually around the southern tip of Ambergris Caye.

Sixty years passed before the placid waters around Ballast Point were again disturbed by deep - sea keels, when Sebastián Vizcaíno anchored on November 10, 1602.