A gestão da água de lastro e suas implicações ambientais

Abstract

Ballast water consists of a means to facilitate travel and maritime trade, being a way of stabilizing the vessel while crossing the rough oceans and their strong currents. In recent decades, however, the use of ballast water has caused a major problem that has become a danger to maritime and coastal ecosystems: the involuntary transport of non native species to a new location, which consequently destabilizes an entire biological chain previously in balance. Therefore, it shall be studied how this problem has been dealt with, in national territory and by international organizations, in order to combat, alleviate and disseminate awareness on the subject, and to assess whether they have been efficient and effective in this regard