Chesapeake Bay Commission on Ballast Water

Authors

• Chesapeake Bay Program

Description

This report summarizes the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Commission's Ballast Water Work Group. It provides a review of unintentional introductions via ballast water from an ecological, economic, and cultural point of view; it identifies actions currently under consideration at the international, national, and state level; and it offers recommendations to the Bay states and the federal government for reducing the risk of biological invasion via ballast water release in the Chesapeake Bay.