id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
iiclr-20958	Atlin, Cole	Aquatic Invasive Species and the Evolution of Canadian and U.S. Ballast Water Regulations in the Great Lakes--Rowing in Tandem or Muddying the Waters?	2013	28	.pdf	application/pdf	11583	732	56	I will also outline ballast water regulations, and the loophole present for ships carrying little ballast water in the regulations of both countries, and examine the US case from 2005 that enabled ballast water to be viewed as a pollutant under the Clean Water Act. However, the International Marine Organization (IMO) developed a new ballast water treaty called the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments (BWM) in 2004.60 It addresses both the responsibility of domestic and regional fleets to do no harm, and the need to create ballast water regulations within a country's domestic waters.	cache/iiclr-20958.pdf	txt/iiclr-20958.txt