Preliminary verification studies of the motility and fluorescence assay (MFA) for ballast water quality monitoring

The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has adopted a ballast water convention to prevent spread of invasive species with ballast water and with it comes the need for fast and reliable tests to estimate the number of viable organisms found in ballast water. During 2017 and 2018, computer-assisted automatic quantification of plankton was compared with direct microscopic counts. Analysed samples represented simulations of ballast water...