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    • Manual for the International Bottom Trawl Surveys. Revision IX. 

      International Council for the Exploration of the Sea; International Bottom Trawl Survey Working Group (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015)
      The International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) in the North Sea has been conducted in the 1st quarter of the year since the beginning of the 1960s. The survey was first aimed at juvenile herring in the central and southern ...
    • Manual of recommended practices for modelling physical – biological interactions during fish early life. 

      North, Elizabeth W.; Gallego, Alejandro; Petitgas, Pierre (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009)
      The objectives of this manual of recommended practices(MRP) are to summarize appropriate methods for modelling physical–biological interactions during the early life of fish, to recommend modelli ...
    • Marine and coastal ecosystem-based risk management handbook. 

      Cormier, Roland; Kannen, Andreas; Elliott, Michael; Hall, Paulette; Davies, Ian M. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013)
      Management of any environmental issue requires the application of management measures designed to eliminate, control, mitigate, or compensate for pressures related to the drivers of human activities to avoid potential ...
    • Monitoring organotins in marine biota. 

      Monteyne, E.; Strand, J.; Vorkamp, K.; Bersuder, P.; Bolam, T.; Giltrap, M.; McGovern, E. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2010)
      These guidelines provide best practices for the measurement of organotin compounds in biota for monitoring programmes. Target compounds include tributyltin (TBT), dibutyltin (DBT), and monobutyltin (MBT) as well as ...
    • The MSC experience: developing an operational certification standard and a market incentive to improve fishery sustainability. 

      Agnew, D. J.; Gutierrez, N. L.; Stern-Pirlot, A.; Hoggarth, D. D (2014)
      The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) standard for sustainable fisheries is represented by three high-level principles and a set of 31 indicators and scoring guidelines, known as the “default assessment tree”. Over the 14 ...
    • Nutrients: Practical notes on their determination in sea water. 

      Kirkwood, D. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996)
      These notes are aimed primarily at the freshwater chemist beginning to conduct analyses of nutrients in saline waters, but they will also be useful to the complete newcomer to the applicatio ...
    • Organic halogens: Determination in marine media of adsorbable, volatile, or extractable compound totals. 

      Grøn, C. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990)
      The environmental impact of the release of halogenated organic compounds to the sea has become of increasing interest during recent decades. Most compounds in this group are xenobiotic of ori ...
    • Oyster embryo-larval bioassay (revised). 

      Leverett, Dean; Thain, John (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013)
      The description of the oyster (Crassostrea gigas) embryo bioassay was initially published in the ICES TIMES series in 1991 (No.11). At the time, the bioassay was used in the United Kingdom for measuring water quality in ...
    • Pitfalls and guidelines for “recycling” models for ecosystem-based fisheries management: evaluating model suitability for forage fish fisheries. 

      Essington, Timothy E.; Plagányi, Éva E. (2014)
      Ecosystem models have been developed for many marine systems to provide guidance on fisheries management strategies that protect key ecological functions. These models are commonly “recycled”, i.e. applied to new questions ...
    • Primary production: Guidlines for measurement by 14C incorporation. 

      Richardson, Katherine (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987)
      In the years intervening between the preparation and publication of this do- cument, at least two other manuals for use in making primary production de- terminations have been introduced (Nie ...
    • Protocol for measuring dioxin-like activity in environmental sample using in vitro reporter gene dr-luc assays. 

      Schipper, Cor A.; Leonards, Pim E. G.; Klamer, Hans J. C.; Thomas, Kevin V.; Vethaak, Andre D. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013)
      Guidelines are given for the quantification of the dioxin-like activities of contaminants in sediment, biota and water samples using the DR-Luc reporter gene bioassay. Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds demonstrate high ...
    • Recommendations for best practice in deep-sea habitat classification: Bullimore et al. as a case study. 

      Henry, Lea-Anne; Roberts, J. Murray (2014)
      We assert that the reef framework-forming coral, Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873, is sometimes incorrectly recorded as another coral, Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) in surveys of deep-sea habitat (e.g. Bullimore, ...
    • Recruitment studies: manual on precision and accuracy of tools. 

      Belchier, M.; Clemmesen, C.; Cortes, D.; Doan, T.; Folkvord, A.; Garcia, A.; Geffen, A.; Høie, H.; Johannessen, A.; Moksness, E.; de Pontual, H.; Ramirez, T.; Schnack, D.; Sveinsbo, B. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004)
      This manual is one of the results of the project Precision and Accuracy of Tools in Recruitment Studies (PARS), financed by the EU (FAIR-CT96–1371). The project PARS is concerned with improving the methodologies used in ...
    • Review of analytical methods for determining metabolites of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in fish bile. 

      Ariese, F.; Beyer, J.; Jonsson, G.; Porte, C.; Krahn, M.M. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005)
      In fish, metabolites of polycyclic aromatic compounds (PACs) in gall bladder bile can be used as biomarkers for recent environmental exposure to PACs. These metabolites in the bile result from hepatic biotransformation ...
    • Sediments and suspended particulate matter: Total and partial methods of digestion. 

      Loring, D. H.; Rantala, R.T.T. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990)
      In order to determine the major and trace metal concentrations of marine sediments and suspended particulate matter by wet chemical methods, it is necessary to dissolve all or part of the s ...
    • Soft bottom macrofauna: Collection and treatment of samples. 

      Rumohr, H. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990)
      The aim of these recommendations 1 is to standardize the methods used by different scientists for long-term benthos surveys, in order to increase the comparability of results for different ar ...
    • Soft bottom macrofauna: Collection, treatment, and quality assurance of samples. 

      Rumohr, H. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999)
      The aim of these recommendations is to standardize the methods used by different scientists for benthos surveys in order to increase the comparability of results for different areas. The results of ICES/HELCOM Quality ...
    • Soft-bottom macrofauna: collection, treatment, and quality assurance of samples. 

      Rumohr, Heye (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2009)
      These recommendations are intended to standardize the methods for benthos surveys used by different scientists to increase the comparability of results for different areas. The results of ICES/HELCOM Quality Assurance ...
    • Supporting variables for biological effects measurements in fish and blue mussel. 

      Hansson, T.; Thain, J.; Martínez-Gómez, C.; Hylland, K.; Gubbins, M.; Balk, L. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017)
      Biological effects measurements in fish and blue mussel are fundamental in marine environmental monitoring. Nevertheless, currently used biomarkers may be confounded by basic physiological phenomena, such as growth, ...
    • Suspended particulate matter: Collection methods for gravimetric and trace metal analysis. 

      Yeats, P. A.; Brügmann, L. (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1990)
      Filtration is the most commonly used method for separating the dissolved and particulate fractions of seawater samples. A wide variety of filter types with different pore sizes has been used fo ...