Reduced by 90% New Introductions of Invasive Species It might come as a surprise to anyone who’s walked a Great Lakes beach laden with invasive zebra and quagga mussel shells, but the two species aren’t particularly common in their home range of the Black and Caspian seas. The invasive mussels have proliferated here because there…

Launched a $17 Billion Ballast Treatment Industry Being in marketing and brand development for Hyde Marine is a globetrotter’s dream.  “In the last two months we’ve done presentations and interfaced with ship owners in the Black Sea, northern Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece and up in the Baltic Sea and Germany, the UK and Denmark,” said…

The First Clean Ballast Tank The footage is grainy by today’s HD-TV standards. It shows a tanker surrounded by choppy water with no land in sight. A thick layer of gray clouds is overhead, and a crew member moves equipment around the deck of the ship. It’s 1997, and the Algonorth isn’t like any other ship in…

Preventing New Invasions: Genetic Tools as an Early Warning System Since the mid-1990s, the Great Lakes Protection Fund had been seeking ways to stop new invasions of non-native species. The Fund had made headway in developing ballast water treatment systems, but vessel operators and authorities had no way of knowing what was living in the…