Did Ja Know?

September 1999

by Sea Grant Staff

Over 40,000 gallons of ballast water containing plankton and other potentially-invasive organisms from overseas are released every minute in the United States. That's over 21 billion gallons per year!

Source: James Carlton, Connecticut Sea Grant researcher.

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