Ballast Water Exchange in the North Atlantic

This white paper focuses on the regional component of ballast water management and specifically addresses concerns in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Gulf of Maine. It summarizes vessel traffic and ballast water exchange in this region, and recommends cooperation between Canada and the U.S. to (a) exam...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pederson, Judith, Fertig, Benjamin
Format: Technical Report
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sea Grant College Program 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97033