We are looking at a number of treatment possibilities: filtration, ultracentrifuge, which is a big centrifuge to spill out the organisms, ozone and chlorine treatment.

And so the organism can become established, can compete with the local population, can cause the collapse of the food chain.

Coming into a new area, this organism doesn't have any real enemies; the defenses of the local population are not up.

San Francisco Bay has been hit hard by organisms hitchhiking from across the Pacific, ... They're talking about setting up very stringent rules for San Francisco Bay. If a ship has to change its whole operation to go into San Francisco Bay, it's going to reflect on the economy of the shipping line.