Global Ballast Water Management Programme GloBALL

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Common Marine Bioinvasion Vectors
Canals
Floating marine debris
Ships
Pleasure Crafts
Aquarium Pet Industry
Drilling platforms
Fisheries, Including Marine Aquaculture
(Mariculture)
Dry Docks
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Governance, Legislation / Roles Responsibilities
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Current and Future Challenges to Marine
Biosecurity

• Legal, policy and institutional arrangements to
  implement existing international agreements
• Lack of baseline knowledge to assist invasion
  management
• Substantial gaps at the intersection of science
  and policy that are impeding biosecurity
  management
• Need for increased cooperation and coordination
  among oceans institutions
• Minimal capacity to deliver marine biosecurity
  often low priority assigned and not enough
  resources allocated

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Climate change adds to the challenge
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weakened ecosystems highly vulnerable for
invasions
Map Source Halpern et al, Science, February 2008
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Black sea
Caspian Sea
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Shipping and Marine Biosecurity
Shipping moves over 90 of world trade
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Major Ports
MPAs
Ship Positions
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• Ships Ballast Water and Sediments Major Vector
• Transfers 10 billion tonnes of ballast / year,
• Carries gt 7,000 species of microbes, plants and
  animals at any one time, and

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Hull Fouling important Vector
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Global Response

• IMO-MEPC 1991
• IMO-Res. A.774(18) and A.868(20) in 1993 and
  1997
• GEF-UNDP-IMO GloBallast 2000
• IMO-BWM Convention 2004
• Hull Fouling in IMO-MEPC Agenda 2008

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• GloBallast A Catalytic GEF Intervention

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• International Convention on Ballast Water
  Management
• - 2004

Presided by India and Vice presided by Brazil ,
South Africa Ukraine (All GB Pilots)
85 of countries who have now ratified the
Convention are from GloBallast Regions
South-North Transfer of GloBallast Tools and
Expertise
Built the Foundation for Global Partnerships
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Phase 2 (2008-2012) The Legal, Policy,
Institutional Reforms
GBP Lead Partners
GBP Partners.
GB Pilots.
Piloting to Partnering Forging New Frontiers
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Global Industry Alliance (GIA)
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Marine Biosecurity Key strategies

• Building capacity (including research) to address
  marine biosecurity issues
• Developing economic policies and tools
• Strengthening legal and institutional frameworks
• Instituting a standardized system of risk
  assessment
• Building public awareness

based on GISP Strategies for Marine Bioinvasions
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Marine Biosecurity Key strategies

• Promoting sharing of information
• Building responses to marine biosecurity into
  other relevant sectors
• Building marine biosecurity issues into global
  change programmes
• Promoting international cooperation on marine
  biosecurity

based on GISP Strategies for Marine Bioinvasions
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Some Recommendations

• Marine biosecurity should receive the kind of
  management effort dedicated, for example, to
  reducing marine pollution.
• Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands to
  include marine biosecurity as an ongoing theme /
  sub-theme
• Progress the CBD-GISP-UNEPRS Joint-Work Programme
  on Marine Bioinvasions
• Encourage GEF-LME Programmes to include marine
  biosecurity as a priority issue
• Bring industry onboard as early as possible

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Some Recommendations

• Promote ratification and implementation of
  existing international agreements (such as
  Ballast Water Management Convention-2004)

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http//globallast.imo.org
Forging Global Partnerships for Marine Biosecurity
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