Maritime Administration - Ballast Water Management Information Center

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Background

As you begin to explore this site, you will see that practically all of the information already exists, either on another website or in documents that exist either on the web or in some other format. So the approach that has been taken is to group the information you need into a small number of folders and to point you to the information by briefly describing its contents and relevance.

For example, in this background section we have provided information from two sites:

	Ballast Water Fact Sheet
	Basic information about ballast water and the introduction of non-native species, from a site created by MIT.
	The Problem
	A graphic description of the ballast water problem, as described in the IMO Globallast site.

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