Press Clips

News Articles

• 3/16/98 UPI: Native Species Invaded
• 6/00 WI National Resources Magazine: A history of invaders 
• 7/11/00 AP: Unwanted Organisms Driving Indigenous Life to Extinction 
• 8/1/00 ABC News: Exotic Sea-life Overwhelming San Francisco Bay Natives 
• 8/14/00 AP: Battle Over Species Carried by Ship Ballast 
• 9/1/00 BBC: Alien invaders hitch a ride on ships 
• 9/1/00 AP: Study Heightens Worry About Germs in Ship Ballast 
• 9/2/00 Environmental News Service: Ballast Water Brings Diseases From Far Off Ports 
• 5/15/01 Halifax Herald: Alien seaweed threat to lobster catch 
• 5/23/01 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: State to fight invasive species 
• 6/1/01 Portland Business Journal: Oregon Senate approves bill to stop ballast water contamination 
• 7/11/01 Detroit Free Press:  Stowaways bedevil Great Lakes

Press Releases

• 9/19/00 National Sea Grant Office: An “Alarming” Discovery for Ruffe
• 11/01/00 National Sea Grant Office: Microbial organisms are major constituents of shipboard ballast water
• 5/31/01 Port of Portland: Port Praises Passage of Oregon Ballast Water Discharge Bill
• 9/5/01 National Sea Grant Office: Invasive Gobies Prevent Sculpin Spawning in the Great Lakes