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HELCOM/OSPAR port sampling

Citation

Flanders Marine Institute: HELCOM/OSPAR port sampling https://doi.org/10.15468/jfhsfx accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-04.

Description

HELCOM/OSPAR Join Ballast Water Decision support tool: Based on the overall IMO framework the 21 Baltic and North-East Atlantic coastal states and EU have developed and agreed in 2013 on a detailed joint harmonised procedure (JHP) to defining “low risk” routes, as well as other necessary steps in granting exemptions under regulation A-4 of the IMO Ballast Water Management Convention. This has been done as a joint venture between the two regional seas commissions HELCOM and OSPAR. The port sampling data on phytoplankton, zooplankton, mobile epifauna, fouling, benthos and pathogens reported to the HELCOM/OSPAR Join Ballast Water Decision support tool (RA Tool) are included in the HELCOM Species database. The observations are thus distributed partly in OSPAR area and outside HELCOM marine area. HELCOM Species database will also be further developed to serve the update of the risk assessment tool carried out in COMPLETE project WP3 (2017-2020).

Taxonomic Coverages

  1. Arthropoda
    rank: phylum
  2. Dinophyceae
    rank: class
  3. Chromista
    rank: kingdom
  4. Nemertea
    rank: phylum
  5. Haptophyta
    rank: phylum
  6. Clitellata
    rank: class
  7. Pyramimonadophyceae
    rank: class
  8. Polychaeta
    rank: class
  9. Hexacorallia
    rank: class
  10. Phaeophyceae
    rank: class
  11. Ascidiacea
    rank: class
  12. Cryptophyta incertae sedis
    rank: class
  13. Prostomatea
    rank: class
  14. Myzozoa
    rank: phylum
  15. Ctenophora
    rank: phylum
  16. Pycnogonida
    rank: class
  17. Heterokontophyta
    rank: phylum
  18. Gastropoda
    rank: class
  19. Cyanophyceae
    rank: class
  20. Echinodermata
    rank: phylum
  21. Mollusca
    rank: phylum
  22. Demospongiae
    rank: class
  23. Bangiophyceae
    rank: class
  24. Tracheophyta
    rank: phylum
  25. Eurotatoria
    rank: class
  26. Pilidiophora
    rank: class
  27. Animalia
    rank: kingdom
  28. Magnoliopsida
    rank: class
  29. Protozoa
    rank: kingdom
  30. Planctomycetia
    rank: class
  31. Chlorophyceae
    rank: class
  32. Planctomycetota
    rank: phylum
  33. Appendicularia
    rank: class
  34. Litostomatea
    rank: class
  35. Insecta
    rank: class
  36. Compsopogonophyceae
    rank: class
  37. Gymnolaemata
    rank: class
  38. Choanoflagellatea
    rank: class
  39. Thecofilosea
    rank: class
  40. Platyhelminthes
    rank: phylum
  41. Ulvophyceae
    rank: class
  42. Copepoda
    rank: class
  43. Echinoidea
    rank: class
  44. Bacillariophyta
    rank: phylum
  45. Bacillariophyceae
    rank: class
  46. Scyphozoa
    rank: class
  47. Ophiuroidea
    rank: class
  48. Malacostraca
    rank: class
  49. Bacteria
    rank: kingdom
  50. Ciliophora
    rank: phylum
  51. Bryozoa
    rank: phylum
  52. Bacteria incertae sedis
    rank: phylum
  53. Hydrozoa
    rank: class
  54. Hexapoda
    rank: class
  55. Mamiellophyceae
    rank: class
  56. Ostracoda
    rank: class
  57. Rotifera
    rank: phylum
  58. Chrysophyceae
    rank: class
  59. Cryptophyceae
    rank: class
  60. Entoprocta
    rank: phylum
  61. Proteobacteria
    rank: phylum
  62. Cyanobacteria
    rank: phylum
  63. Annelida
    rank: phylum
  64. Florideophyceae
    rank: class
  65. Hoplonemertea
    rank: class
  66. Chordata
    rank: phylum
  67. Rhodophyta
    rank: phylum
  68. Nuda
    rank: class
  69. Charophyta
    rank: phylum
  70. Bivalvia
    rank: class
  71. Coccolithophyceae
    rank: class
  72. Trebouxiophyceae
    rank: class
  73. Bigyra
    rank: phylum
  74. Oligotrichea
    rank: class
  75. Peranemea
    rank: class
  76. Zygnematophyceae
    rank: class
  77. Chlorophyta
    rank: phylum
  78. Dictyochophyceae
    rank: class
  79. Phylactolaemata
    rank: class
  80. Cercozoa
    rank: phylum
  81. Euglenoidea
    rank: class
  82. Cryptophyta
    rank: phylum
  83. Choanozoa
    rank: phylum
  84. Bicosoecophyceae
    rank: class
  85. Euglenophyceae
    rank: class
  86. Petromyzonti
    rank: class
  87. Porifera
    rank: phylum
  88. Eustigmatophyceae
    rank: class
  89. Plantae
    rank: kingdom
  90. Thecostraca
    rank: class
  91. Chlorodendrophyceae
    rank: class
  92. Euglenozoa
    rank: phylum
  93. Telonemea
    rank: class
  94. Gammaproteobacteria
    rank: class
  95. Calcarea
    rank: class
  96. Cyanobacteriia
    rank: class
  97. Tentaculata
    rank: class
  98. Klebsormidiophyceae
    rank: class
  99. Xanthophyceae
    rank: class
  100. Phoronida
    rank: phylum
  101. Ochrophyta
    rank: phylum
  102. Dinoflagellata incertae sedis
    rank: class
  103. Branchiopoda
    rank: class
  104. Asteroidea
    rank: class
  105. Teleostei
    rank: class
  106. Cnidaria
    rank: phylum
  107. Ichthyostraca
    rank: class

Geographic Coverages

Baltic and North-East Atlantic coastal waters. The observations are distributed partly in OSPAR area and outside HELCOM marine area.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

HELCOM Secretariat HELCOM
originator
HELCOM Secretariat
email: data@helcom.fi
HELCOM Secretariat HELCOM
metadata author
HELCOM Secretariat
email: data@helcom.fi
HELCOM Secretariat HELCOM
administrative point of contact
HELCOM Secretariat
email: data@helcom.fi
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