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The urgent need to control ballast-mediated bioinvasions prompted the maritime industry and the legislators to adopt open-ocean ballast water exchange without rigorously testing its effectiveness in terms of eliminating ballast-entrained biota. A review of recent studies of biota entrained in ballast water and sediments following open-ocean exchange raised questions as to the reliability of the procedure as an effective control measure.
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Galil, B.S., Hülsmann, N. (2002). The Biological Efficacy of Open Ocean Exchange — Implications for Ballast Water Management. In: Leppäkoski, E., Gollasch, S., Olenin, S. (eds) Invasive Aquatic Species of Europe. Distribution, Impacts and Management. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9956-6_49
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