Symposium on Ballast Water Management and Aquatic Nuisance Species: Setting a Research Agenda for the Great Lakes. Held in Duluth, Minnesota on April 29, 1999.

摘要

The ballast water research symposium is an initiative of the Great Lakes Panel. It was suggested that thenoutcome would be useful at many different levels and would be important in developing strategies to preventnnew ANS introductions, which, for many people, is the fundamental issue. While it is a difficult issue tonaddress at the state and local level, bodies like the Great Lakes Panel and the national ANS Task Forcenprovide a forum for seeking effective prevention strategies. Thus, in short, the focus of the ballast waternsymposium is on "closing the door" to new ANS introductions to avoid the need for control and abatementnprograms.