Boat owners transporting watercraft with ballast tanks or bladders will undergo additional cleaning at watercraft inspection stations this summer to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. The ...

The divers with Code 760, Regional Dive Locker at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility took delivery of a new purpose-built dive boat in May.The new boat replaces an ...

The spread of invasive species carried across the world in the ballast tanks of ships is causing billions of pounds of damage each year, conservationists warned. 13 July 2009 • 8:04am The Chinese ...

Ballast water of ships may be the source of the largest volume of foreign organisms released on a daily basis into the marine ecosystems. The ballast water has been a primary method of alien species ...

Zebra mussels are native to the Black Sea separating Southern Europe from Western Asia. But in the late 1980s, larvae of the fingernail-sized mollusks invaded the Great Lakes between the U.S. and ...

The proper lining of ballast tanks is essential and critical to ship safety. Not too many decades ago, ships traveling the North Atlantic routes were experiencing terrible losses from outright sinking ...

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The Seeley Lake Ranger District continues to work on post-fire recovery projects. Across the district, there is over $2.3 million planned for road maintenance and contract work. “Post-fire recovery is ...