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Acoustic target classification.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018)Data are collected from a variety of acoustic systems in many countries to address a range of ecosystem monitoring and stock management objectives. A key step in the analysis of fisheries acoustics ... -
Benthic communities: Use in monitoring point-source discharges.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991)The response to a request from the ICES Advisory Committee on Marine Pollution (ACMP) for advice on this topic has been structured along the following lines: Section A - a general review of benthic studies in relation ... -
Best practice for Data Management. Version 1.2.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2022)This document is intended as a general guidance for creating and maintaining data collections in ICES – although a number of the general principles can be applied anywhere. It will particularly be a useful resource for ... -
Best practices for the provision of prior information for Bayesian stock assessment.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015)This manual represents a review of the potential sources and methods to be applied when providing prior information to Bayesian stock assessments and marine risk analysis. The manual is compiled as a product of the EC ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Assessing DNA damage in marine species through single-cell alkaline gel electrophoresis (comet) assay.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016)Single cell gel electrophoresis (SCGE or comet) assay allows quantification of DNA damage in individual cells and is an ideal tool for use within biological monitoring programmes. Comet assay can be used on a range of cell ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Corophium sp. sediment bioassay and toxicity test.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001)The method described here is a whole-sediment reworker bioassay using burrowing amphipods. This method description covers the use of Corophium spp., as this is the genus most commonly used in Europe, but the procedure can ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Determination of CYP1A-dependent mono-oxygenase activity in dab by fluorimetric measurement of EROD activity.
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Biological effects of contaminants: Measurement of DNA adducts in fish by 32P-postlabelling.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999)This document describes in detail the 32P-postlabelling method and its application to fish. Several recent studies have shown that the 32P-postlabelling method can be used to detect and measure the levels of DNA modified ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: measurement of lysosomal membrane stability.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004)Lysosomes are ubiquitous cellular organelles that provide a waste disposal and macromolecular recycling system (autophagy) and also a membrane-bound compartment for intracellular digestion of food ingested by the cells. ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: measurement of scope for growth in mussels.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006)Scope for growth (SFG) is a method of assessing the whole-animal physiological response to sublethal stress induced by pollutants. It has been applied widely in small- and large-scale pollution monitoring programmes in ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Microplate method for measurement of ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) in fish.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991)Interest in the use of mixed function oxidase (MFa) as a monitoring tool for measuring the effects of pollntants derives from basic research carried out over the past twenty years (see revi ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) embryo bioassay.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991)The oyster embryo bioassay was initially developed by Woelke (1972). The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) in the UK have modified the method to improve the accuracy of the ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Paracentrotus lividus sea urchin embryo test with marine sediment elutriates.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2012)This ICES Techniques in Marine Environmental Sciences describes a sediment elutriate bioassay using embryos of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus, a species widely distributed in both Atlantic and European Mediterranean ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Quantification of metallothionein (MT) in fish liver tissue.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999)This document describes methods to analyse the protein metallothionein in fish tissues. Metallothionein is induced by and binds essential (Cu, Zn) and non-essential (Cd, Hg) metals and is used in monitoring programmes as ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Quantification of δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALA-D) activity in fish blood.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004)This document describes a colorimetric method to quantify the enzyme δ-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase (ALA-D) in fish blood. ALA-D is an enzyme in the heme synthesis pathway. The activity of the enzyme is inhibited by ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Radioimmunoassay (RIA) and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) techniques for the measurement of marine fish vitellogenins.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002)This document describes immunochemical methods to quantify the egg-yolk precursor protein vitellogenin in fish plasma. Vitellogenin is normally produced by the liver of mature female fish in response to 17β-oestradiol (E2) ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Sediment bioassay using the polychaete Arenicola marina.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2001)The method described here is a whole-sediment reworker bioassay using the polychaete Arenicola marina, a direct deposit feeder that is widely distributed in European coastal waters and on the east coast of North America. ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: the use of embryo aberrations in amphipod crustaceans for measuring effects of environmental stressors.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2008)This report describes the methodology for assessing the proportions and different types of embryo aberrations in both sediment‐dwelling and nektonic amphipods. Determination of malformed embryos is a sensitive method of ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: Use of imposex in the dogwhelk (Nucella lapillus) as a bioindicator of tributyltin pollution.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 1999)This document describes a method for detecting contamination of the marine environment by tributyltin (TBT) using a sensitive neogastropod, the dogwhelk Nucella lapillus (L.), as a bioindicator. Exposure of female N. ... -
Biological effects of contaminants: use of liver pathology of the European flatfish dab (Limanda limanda L.) and flounder (Platichthys flesus L.) for monitoring.
(International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2004)publication provides quality assurance guidelines for the use of liver pathology of flatfish in biological effects of contaminants monitoring programmes. Information on the sampling procedures, including macroscopic ...
