Examining the performance of three ballast water compliance monitoring devices for quantifying live organisms in both regulated size classes (≥50 μm and ≥10–50 μm)

摘要

Abstract A number of ballast water compliance monitoring devices (CMDs) have been made commercially available to verify the efficacy of ballast water management systems by quantifying the living organisms for both plankton size classes (≥50 μm and ≥10–80%) in estimating organisms from prepared-challenge water (Ballast Eye and BallastWISE) than from ballast water samples (>70%) (B-QUA only). The sensitivity ranged from 50 to 100% for the ≥50 μm organism size class, whereas for the ≥10–75%) than for marine samples (>50%). The performance of CMDs should be assessed under real-world conditions for a better understanding and to improve their use.