Transport

How Aquatic Nuisance Species are Introduced and Spread
Protect Your Waters Web Site
www.protectyourwaters.net/hitchhikers/hitchhikers_scope.php#spread

Global Ballast Water Management Programme Web Site
http://globallast.imo.org/

United States Coast Guard Web Site
http://www.uscg.mil/default.asp

Introduced Species IN U.S. COASTAL,
Environmental Impacts and Management Priorities
Pew Oceans Commission
http://www.vims.edu/abc/EndNote1075.pdf

The Problem
Global Ballast Water Management Programme
http://globallast.imo.org/problem.htm

Don’t Pick up Hitchihikers! Stop the Zebra Mussel
Sea Grant Nonindigenous Species Web site
http://sgnis.org/publicat/hitchikr.htm

Exotic Species
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/bioindicators/aquatic/exotic.html

The Problem
Global Ballast Water Management Programme
http://globallast.imo.org/problem.htm

Worldwide Distribution, Spread of, and Efforts to Eradicate
the Nutria (Myocastor coypus)
USGS National Wetlands Research Center
http://www.haccp-nrm.org/

West Coast Ballast Outreach Project
Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of California
http://ballast-outreach-ucsgep.ucdavis.edu/