Invasive aquatic species

Regulatory bodies face a number of challenges in ensuring compliance. Based on a review of literature, this paper highlights the various facets of the BWM Convention that are inadvertently creating challenges for the PSCs and FSCs to ensure effective compliance of the Convention.

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Treatment of ship ballast water with sodium hydroxide (NaOH) is one method currently being developed to minimize the risk to introduce aquatic invasive species. The bactericidal capability of sodium hydroxide was determined for 148 bacterial strains from ballast water collected in 2009 and 2010 from the M/V Indiana Harbor, a bulk-freight carrier plying the Laurentian Great Lakes, USA. Primary culture of bacteria was done using brain heart infusion agar and a developmental medium. Strains were characterized based on PCR amplification and sequencing of a portion of the 16S rRNA gene.

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Plant species that invade an alien area and outgrow the native vegetation, establishing and increasing their own territory, often lead to negative economic, environmental, and social impacts. Even native species can behave like invasive species by their exponential spread. Similarly, not all non-native species are invasive. Many alien invasive species, however, do threaten the health and integrity of our terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

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The rising incidence of invasive species displacing endemics and altering water chemistry and local foodwebs increasingly affects freshwater systems and should be considered a water quality problem (Carr and Neary 2008). Aquatic species have in many cases been introduced deliberately into distant ecosystems for recreational, economic, or other purposes. In many instances, these introductions have decimated endemic fish and other aquatic organisms, and they can also degrade local watersheds.

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The long-term approach to achieving protection is “ecological separation.” A true ecological separation is defined as no inter-basin transfer of aquatic organisms via the Chicago Waterway System at any time – 100% effectiveness. Ecological separation prohibits the movement or interbasin transfer of aquatic organisms between the Mississippi and Great Lakes basins via the CWS. Once established, the impacts of invasive species on ecosystem health are permanent and irreversible.

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