Ships' Biofouling, 2024 Edition Format:Book To help employers ensure compliance

To help employers ensure compliance

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Ships' Biofouling, 2024 Edition Format:Book To help employers ensure complianceOverview The introduction of harmful aquatic organisms to new environments by ships has been identified as a major threat to world oceans and to the conservation of biodiversity. Biofouling, described as the undesirable accumulation of microorganisms, plants, algae and animals on submerged structures (especially ships hulls), is considered one of the main vectors for bioinvasions. These Guidelines for the control and management of ships biofouling to