**8. Conclusion**

Ballast water management has created excellent results in encouraging research and development as well as international cooperation on environmental protection to keep bio-invasions in the marine environment at bay. However, more data needs to be collected in order to measure the true effectiveness and human/biosafety of the more popular and now existing technological innovations to treat ballast water. The use of chlorine on the scale that it is being used to treat ballast water and the concerns raised about it must encourage even better solutions. This is true progress.

Further, taking special care for the ballast water management of a sensitive regions like the Arctic, the Antarctic, and the ancient traditional routes of trade around the world such as the Mediterranean Sea will need to continue. Collaborations to use science to create sustainable and bio-safe maritime activity must be the inspirational goal through which scientific studies for innovation, monitoring and record-keeping must be done while protecting sustainable maritime commerce.

The best and most environmentally sound ballast water management systems must be encouraged for that region to protect the environment and directly the communities of that region. In terms of the loss of Russian scientists because of the Russian-Ukraine conflict, cutting-edge research, ground-breaking findings of scientists should not be so easily abandoned, negotiation, and respect for scientific answers should still be protected, conflicting nations also have a vested interest in the environment and this must be protected. Finally, since the surveys conducted and experiments discussed in this paper have demonstrated where the strengths and weaknesses are (for example, consider the experiments in the Arctic and Antarctica, there are still problems with lack of compliance with the BWM 2004 Treaty that seriously threaten those environments), this should be very useful to guide different budgets

to be prepared by governments, business entities, and various commercial interests to invest in making sure that ballast water management is taken very seriously.
