Final Conference 9-10 February 2021

Admin

08:46

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Sakari Kuikka

09:00

En saa puhujia näkyviin?

Admin

09:03

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Gordon Copp

09:15

Yes

Kim Lundgreen

09:15

Two of my Danish colleagues cannot enter through the provided link. Do you have a feeling other attendees are missing?

Admin

09:18

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Kim Lundgreen

09:19

Not using chrome was the issue, thanks for the advice.

Admin

10:21

Please send your questions and comments during the presentations.

Okko Outinen

10:28

How often do you receive requests about ballast water exemptions from ship operators? Are the ship operators often counting on receiving an exemption, or do they prefer using ballast water management systems?

Anonymous

10:40

How long would it take to get a new species, observed in the Baltic Sea, to be included in the Target Species list, if it fulfils the TS criteria?

Jenni Kakkonen

10:44

Are the port baseline surveys repeated at regular intervals?

Carl L. Ahrens

10:55

Is there anny active roll for local port authorities intended?

burkard watermann

10:55

why only human pathogens?

Gordon Copp

10:56

Is the RA tool in English only, or are there other language options so as to reduce linguistic uncertainty?

Piotr Gruszka

10:59

Why only the Baltic is mentioned in the RA algorithm? Is OSPAR excluded from JHP?

Anonymous

11:12

How big is penalty for ballast water not in accordance with the norm in EU ?

Anonymous

11:14

Is there minimum amount of vessel which must be checked according ballast water convention?

Andy

11:15

If the vessel is bound from Hamburg to Helsinki via Kiel Kanal. as per map High Risk. Where should the vessel exchange ballast?

Anonymous

11:22

From now it means if inspected 10 vessels per year for country according ballast water convention this system formaly working. I see problem here.

Mostafa

11:25

I missed the beginning of this great conference/presentations . is it possible to review it again on line . thank you

Miina Karjalainen

11:27

Thank you @Mostafa, all the presentations will be recorded and available at the conference web page afterwards: https://balticcomplete.com/news/final-conference

Miina Karjalainen

11:39

Apologies, we started with the wrong short movie, here is the correct one about the Ballast Water Management compliance monitoring.

Ville-Veikko Intovuori

11:46

I checked that 15 % of ships visiting in Finland are PSC inspected annually. This means that about 270 ships annually. I assume that percentage is about same between different countries. PSC inspection contains also BWMC inspection. More information for the content of the inspection can be found from the IMO PSC Guidelines MEPC.252(67). I hope this helps!

Anonymous

11:54

"PSC inspection contains also BWMC inspection". Also every inspection have checked samples from ballast water? Or only if pappers are ok we automaticaly trust that samples are also ok?

Ville-Veikko Intovuori

12:06

In general, sampling in PSC is conducted only if ship fails two first steps of inspection, meaning initial inspection (documentation and inspection round) and detailed inspection. Four step inspection process is described in the PSC Guidelines MEPC.252(67).

Anonymous

12:14

Thanks. It means that the ballast inspector has no right take ballast water samples if documentations is ok. There have risk for falce papers.

Matthias Voigt

12:17

As a note: There are also some approaches in development within ISO about this issue. Namely ISO NP 3725 Methodology for validating indicative analysis tools used for monitoring ballast water, and on sampling ISO 11711 Parts 1 to 3

Ville-Veikko Intovuori

12:29

According to the BWMC Article 9, ship ballast water can be always sampled. However, sampling all ships or sampling ships randomly, would be resource consuming and leaves other matters (like safety issues) on minor attention. Therefore, we are following the IMO PSC Guidelines.

ADMIN

07:11

Welcome to the second day of the conference!

ADMIN

07:30

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M.

08:22

what do you mean by secondary spread please

Manuela Krakau

08:24

Q to JOANNA HEGELE-DRYWA: Are there any comparable studies on biofouling and WSA flux in other areas?

Britta Eklund

08:29

How did you select the bots that you investigated?

Frank - LITEHAUZ

08:33

Do you have any considerations regarding how to translate WSA to biofouling propagule pressure, e.g. vessel speed, age of antifouling coating, distance travelled, niche area proportion?

Frank - LITEHAUZ

08:34

Sorry, previous question for Joanna

Manuela Krakau

08:35

Did you document what kind of anti-fouling coating (e.g. biocides) was used for the examined boats? Or whether fouling on boat hulls was treated otherwise?

Aleksei Lotman

08:37

Was there assessment of hazards of NIS spread via biofouling vs chemical hazards from antifouling paints? PS. This might be a slightly more general question relevant to other presentations as well.

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

08:39

How aware were boat owners of the problem to spread NIS with there boatds?

Jachim Haas

08:43

Hi, where will the slides be available?

Anonymous

08:46

Many ships owners make money economy and painting procedure make as fast as possible. Time is money. But it gives poor quality. Is there some control mechanism from environmental scientists?

Hannelore Keim

08:51

How was the WSA considered for ships like RoRo ships that travel daily between ports in the Baltic sea? Was the WSA considered for every single of the frequent voyages?

Miina Karjalainen

08:57

@Jachim Haas, the conference materials will be uploaded to the conference website after the event: https://balticcomplete.com/news/final-conference

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

09:00

How do you plan to keep the information up to date?

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

09:05

Do you know if commercial and/or leisure boats use the tool?

Britta Eklund

09:05

Could you show the link again to the database, please

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

09:06

Database

Miina Karjalainen

09:06

https://biofouling-database.bsh.de/

Julia

09:07

Maybe you can share the link to the database here in the comments field?

Piotr Gruszka

09:07

No IWC services offered in Poland?

Thomas

09:08

Is there any authority to check/control the Biofouling management in BSR?

Piotr Gruszka

09:10

When implementing the biofouling management measures, inland shipping (not only commercial, leisure boats as well) in the HELCOM and OSPAR regions/countries must not be forgotten. How this aspect was addressed by COMPLETE? These pathways of NIS introduction and/or dispersal seem to have been disregarded in the presented project's studies...

Frank - LITEHAUZ

09:12

The database includes only IWC with capture/filter. Was there a criteria for the efficacy of capture/filter?

Willem Dekker

09:16

In relation to question asked by Piotr I can inform you that there is a EUROPEAN CODE OF CONDUCT ON RECREATIONAL BOATING AND INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES issued by CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF EUROPEAN WILDLIFE AND NATURAL HABITATS Standing Committee 36th meeting Strasbourg, 15-18 November 2016 __________

Piotr Gruszka

09:17

Thank you!

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

09:42

Are there a additional recommendations for the cleaning of niche areas on commercial vessels?

Miina Karjalainen

09:49

For your information, the link to the Guide on best practices of biofouling management in the Baltic Sea: https://balticcomplete.com/publications/project-reports/321-guide-on-best-practices-of-biofouling-management-in-the-baltic-sea

Aleksei Lotman

09:50

Why is there still a need for biocide containing antifouling agents if biocide-free alternatives are available? Or are the latter not sufficiently efficient yet?

Miina Karjalainen

09:52

The barnacle warning app Burkard mentioned can be found here (in Swedish): https://batmiljo.se/havstulpanvarningen-2/

Miina Karjalainen

09:54

A similar app for barnacle warning is available in Finland: https://www.pidasaaristosiistina.fi/roope-palvelut/rocco-palvelu

Manuela Krakau

10:08

Q to LENA GRANHAG: How will the results on less necessary copper contents in anti-fouling paints be communicated to the manufacturing industry and the boat owners? Is there a kind of campaign planned?

Willem Dekker

10:12

Lena, you show critical release rate as a parameter for use of AF systems in the various sea area's. Legislation on products that are allowed tend to be by country. Are your recommendations being implemented in natinal law in various countries around the Baltic Sea?

Aleksei Lotman

10:14

My question above has been partially answered by the later presentations, so it can be skipped if time is limited. However if there is time, simple answers by experts would still be appreciated.

Miina Karjalainen

10:20

Emilia's e-mail address: emilia.luoma@helsinki.fi

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

10:20

Would there be a consequence for a merchant ship arriving in the BSR without a proper biofouling management plan / practice? How could a ship with suspicious biofouling be dealt with? Who could act on it under which jursitriction? Penalties?

Torsten Schwanemann

10:22

What was the benchmark to determine the critical release rate? Was it not develoving any hard-fouling over the test period?

Thomas

10:24

But should this now come for Baltic sea? Biofouling management like in California

Frank - LITEHAUZ

10:26

Emilia, Congrats for what looks like a very nice tool. Is it correctly understood that when you do the assessment of total cost/benefits you internalise the cost currently externalised in shipping, e.g. the impact of invasive species?

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

10:30

It looks like proactive strategies for biofouling management are being recommended and ships appear to be benefiting from them. Why are not more ship owners implement this strategy?

Miina Karjalainen

10:35

The proposal for a regional Baltic biofouling management roadmap available here: https://balticcomplete.com/publications/project-reports/320-proposal-for-a-regional-baltic-biofouling-management-roadmap

ALejandra AG

11:07

Technologies of Validation and sampling

Miina Karjalainen

11:07

If you wish to take a look at the short movies made by the COMPLETE project, they can be found here: https://balticcomplete.com/publications/movies

N.N.

11:27

Are there any citizen observations that have been the first observations of an alien species in the Baltic Sea?

MM

11:29

What is better for citizen observations - different websites for marine and terrestrial species? Or 1 common website for all IAS?

Manuela Krakau

11:30

Thanks for presenting all the possible monitoring methods! Since all the Baltic states have different possibilities and (financial) capacities: Is there a process ongoing to find a lowest common denominator for better comparison of monitoring results between Baltic coastal surveys?

S.S.

11:55

Have you tested how is the threshold detection DNA amounts related to how much DNA could be found in environmental samples with very low concentration?

Manuela Krakau

11:56

Q to AURELIJA SAMUILOVIENĖ: Can you estimate how much costs for DNA techniques will be incurred for the monitoring, e.g. per year?

S.S.

11:57

To Aurelija, as a continuation, I have read before that qPCR would be necessary to detect very low concentrations of target species, can you comment on this?

Gordon Copp

12:08

Answer to Manuela's question: How long is a piece of string (i.e. number of samples, locations, consumables...)

S.S.

12:11

To Maiju Lehtiniemi (or anyone): Are these guidelines/manuals publicly available at the moment?

Gordon Copp

12:12

Like with satellite remote sensing, eDNA results must be 'ground truthed', i.e. species presence confirmed by actual capture of the species to demonstrate that the meta-barcoding results are accurate.

Sergej Olenin

12:14

Questions to Henn: 1) is the NIS impact on the food webs always negative? 2) If it is not how do you distinguish between “negative”, “positive” and “neutral”? What is the message to managers if the impact is positive? 3) The soft clam Mya aranaria is present in the Baltic Sea for more than half of a millennium (as geological records show), why it is still considered non-indigenous?

S.S.

12:19

Thank you for the answer! I understand that currently the plan is to monitor based on normal PCR only and not qPCR analyses.

Alejandra AG

12:46

IS posible DNA Environmental Sampling for Research Team Báltic Sea yo Guajira Offshore?

Manuela Krakau

12:59

What kind of data quality assurance is applied for the data entered into the AquaNIS database?

Anonymous

12:59

AquaNIS is nice database. But what about deep sea station samples? Is it possible to record deep sea species there?

Miina Karjalainen

13:13

The report about the Early Warning System workshop: https://balticcomplete.com/publications/project-reports/324-workshop-the-early-warning-system-ews-on-findings-of-harmful-aquatic-organisms-and-pathogens-haop-in-the-baltic-sea-and-its-implementation-in-the-aquanis-information-system

MM

13:15

EWS framework principles for national authorities could be developed in frame of COMPLETE + project?

Jenni Kakkonen

13:15

Is the EWS currently only operational in the Baltic? Can other countries be included?

Manuela Krakau

13:18

Ballast water is just one possibility of introduction. Are there already recommendations in EWA for national authorities when NIS may be transferred by aquaculture or moving along human-made canals?

Piotr Gruszka

13:26

There is a strong relevance to BWM. Efficient monitoring of TS in port areas is a key factor. But how does it conform to the very infrequent port basline studies indicated in JHP?

Miina Karjalainen

13:39

Thank you for your interest to out project, and for all your questions and comments during the conference, on behalf of the entire COMPLETE project team!

Miina Karjalainen

13:39

All the final conference materials will be made available at: https://balticcomplete.com/news/final-conference

Julia

13:41

Thank you very much for an informative and interactive conference!

Julia

13:41

Thank you very much for an informative and interactive conference!

Miina Karjalainen

13:39

All the final conference materials will be made available at: https://balticcomplete.com/news/final-conference

Miina Karjalainen

13:39

Thank you for your interest to out project, and for all your questions and comments during the conference, on behalf of the entire COMPLETE project team!

Piotr Gruszka

13:26

There is a strong relevance to BWM. Efficient monitoring of TS in port areas is a key factor. But how does it conform to the very infrequent port basline studies indicated in JHP?

Manuela Krakau

13:18

Ballast water is just one possibility of introduction. Are there already recommendations in EWA for national authorities when NIS may be transferred by aquaculture or moving along human-made canals?

Jenni Kakkonen

13:15

Is the EWS currently only operational in the Baltic? Can other countries be included?

MM

13:15

EWS framework principles for national authorities could be developed in frame of COMPLETE + project?

Miina Karjalainen

13:13

The report about the Early Warning System workshop: https://balticcomplete.com/publications/project-reports/324-workshop-the-early-warning-system-ews-on-findings-of-harmful-aquatic-organisms-and-pathogens-haop-in-the-baltic-sea-and-its-implementation-in-the-aquanis-information-system

Anonymous

12:59

AquaNIS is nice database. But what about deep sea station samples? Is it possible to record deep sea species there?

Manuela Krakau

12:59

What kind of data quality assurance is applied for the data entered into the AquaNIS database?

Alejandra AG

12:46

IS posible DNA Environmental Sampling for Research Team Báltic Sea yo Guajira Offshore?

S.S.

12:19

Thank you for the answer! I understand that currently the plan is to monitor based on normal PCR only and not qPCR analyses.

Sergej Olenin

12:14

Questions to Henn: 1) is the NIS impact on the food webs always negative? 2) If it is not how do you distinguish between “negative”, “positive” and “neutral”? What is the message to managers if the impact is positive? 3) The soft clam Mya aranaria is present in the Baltic Sea for more than half of a millennium (as geological records show), why it is still considered non-indigenous?

Gordon Copp

12:12

Like with satellite remote sensing, eDNA results must be 'ground truthed', i.e. species presence confirmed by actual capture of the species to demonstrate that the meta-barcoding results are accurate.

S.S.

12:11

To Maiju Lehtiniemi (or anyone): Are these guidelines/manuals publicly available at the moment?

Gordon Copp

12:08

Answer to Manuela's question: How long is a piece of string (i.e. number of samples, locations, consumables...)

S.S.

11:57

To Aurelija, as a continuation, I have read before that qPCR would be necessary to detect very low concentrations of target species, can you comment on this?

Manuela Krakau

11:56

Q to AURELIJA SAMUILOVIENĖ: Can you estimate how much costs for DNA techniques will be incurred for the monitoring, e.g. per year?

S.S.

11:55

Have you tested how is the threshold detection DNA amounts related to how much DNA could be found in environmental samples with very low concentration?

Manuela Krakau

11:30

Thanks for presenting all the possible monitoring methods! Since all the Baltic states have different possibilities and (financial) capacities: Is there a process ongoing to find a lowest common denominator for better comparison of monitoring results between Baltic coastal surveys?

MM

11:29

What is better for citizen observations - different websites for marine and terrestrial species? Or 1 common website for all IAS?

N.N.

11:27

Are there any citizen observations that have been the first observations of an alien species in the Baltic Sea?

Miina Karjalainen

11:07

If you wish to take a look at the short movies made by the COMPLETE project, they can be found here: https://balticcomplete.com/publications/movies

ALejandra AG

11:07

Technologies of Validation and sampling

Miina Karjalainen

10:35

The proposal for a regional Baltic biofouling management roadmap available here: https://balticcomplete.com/publications/project-reports/320-proposal-for-a-regional-baltic-biofouling-management-roadmap

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

10:30

It looks like proactive strategies for biofouling management are being recommended and ships appear to be benefiting from them. Why are not more ship owners implement this strategy?

Frank - LITEHAUZ

10:26

Emilia, Congrats for what looks like a very nice tool. Is it correctly understood that when you do the assessment of total cost/benefits you internalise the cost currently externalised in shipping, e.g. the impact of invasive species?

Thomas

10:24

But should this now come for Baltic sea? Biofouling management like in California

Torsten Schwanemann

10:22

What was the benchmark to determine the critical release rate? Was it not develoving any hard-fouling over the test period?

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

10:20

Would there be a consequence for a merchant ship arriving in the BSR without a proper biofouling management plan / practice? How could a ship with suspicious biofouling be dealt with? Who could act on it under which jursitriction? Penalties?

Miina Karjalainen

10:20

Emilia's e-mail address: emilia.luoma@helsinki.fi

Aleksei Lotman

10:14

My question above has been partially answered by the later presentations, so it can be skipped if time is limited. However if there is time, simple answers by experts would still be appreciated.

Willem Dekker

10:12

Lena, you show critical release rate as a parameter for use of AF systems in the various sea area's. Legislation on products that are allowed tend to be by country. Are your recommendations being implemented in natinal law in various countries around the Baltic Sea?

Manuela Krakau

10:08

Q to LENA GRANHAG: How will the results on less necessary copper contents in anti-fouling paints be communicated to the manufacturing industry and the boat owners? Is there a kind of campaign planned?

Miina Karjalainen

09:54

A similar app for barnacle warning is available in Finland: https://www.pidasaaristosiistina.fi/roope-palvelut/rocco-palvelu

Miina Karjalainen

09:52

The barnacle warning app Burkard mentioned can be found here (in Swedish): https://batmiljo.se/havstulpanvarningen-2/

Aleksei Lotman

09:50

Why is there still a need for biocide containing antifouling agents if biocide-free alternatives are available? Or are the latter not sufficiently efficient yet?

Miina Karjalainen

09:49

For your information, the link to the Guide on best practices of biofouling management in the Baltic Sea: https://balticcomplete.com/publications/project-reports/321-guide-on-best-practices-of-biofouling-management-in-the-baltic-sea

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

09:42

Are there a additional recommendations for the cleaning of niche areas on commercial vessels?

Piotr Gruszka

09:17

Thank you!

Willem Dekker

09:16

In relation to question asked by Piotr I can inform you that there is a EUROPEAN CODE OF CONDUCT ON RECREATIONAL BOATING AND INVASIVE ALIEN SPECIES issued by CONVENTION ON THE CONSERVATION OF EUROPEAN WILDLIFE AND NATURAL HABITATS Standing Committee 36th meeting Strasbourg, 15-18 November 2016 __________

Frank - LITEHAUZ

09:12

The database includes only IWC with capture/filter. Was there a criteria for the efficacy of capture/filter?

Piotr Gruszka

09:10

When implementing the biofouling management measures, inland shipping (not only commercial, leisure boats as well) in the HELCOM and OSPAR regions/countries must not be forgotten. How this aspect was addressed by COMPLETE? These pathways of NIS introduction and/or dispersal seem to have been disregarded in the presented project's studies...

Thomas

09:08

Is there any authority to check/control the Biofouling management in BSR?

Piotr Gruszka

09:07

No IWC services offered in Poland?

Julia

09:07

Maybe you can share the link to the database here in the comments field?

Miina Karjalainen

09:06

https://biofouling-database.bsh.de/

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

09:06

Database

Britta Eklund

09:05

Could you show the link again to the database, please

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

09:05

Do you know if commercial and/or leisure boats use the tool?

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

09:00

How do you plan to keep the information up to date?

Miina Karjalainen

08:57

@Jachim Haas, the conference materials will be uploaded to the conference website after the event: https://balticcomplete.com/news/final-conference

Hannelore Keim

08:51

How was the WSA considered for ships like RoRo ships that travel daily between ports in the Baltic sea? Was the WSA considered for every single of the frequent voyages?

Anonymous

08:46

Many ships owners make money economy and painting procedure make as fast as possible. Time is money. But it gives poor quality. Is there some control mechanism from environmental scientists?

Jachim Haas

08:43

Hi, where will the slides be available?

Kristina - LITEHAUZ

08:39

How aware were boat owners of the problem to spread NIS with there boatds?

Aleksei Lotman

08:37

Was there assessment of hazards of NIS spread via biofouling vs chemical hazards from antifouling paints? PS. This might be a slightly more general question relevant to other presentations as well.

Manuela Krakau

08:35

Did you document what kind of anti-fouling coating (e.g. biocides) was used for the examined boats? Or whether fouling on boat hulls was treated otherwise?

Frank - LITEHAUZ

08:34

Sorry, previous question for Joanna

Frank - LITEHAUZ

08:33

Do you have any considerations regarding how to translate WSA to biofouling propagule pressure, e.g. vessel speed, age of antifouling coating, distance travelled, niche area proportion?

Britta Eklund

08:29

How did you select the bots that you investigated?

Manuela Krakau

08:24

Q to JOANNA HEGELE-DRYWA: Are there any comparable studies on biofouling and WSA flux in other areas?

M.

08:22

what do you mean by secondary spread please

ADMIN

07:30

If the video is not playing, please press "Play" in the video screen and also see that audio is enabled. You can find the audio controls in the right bottom corner of the video screen. The recommended browser is Google Chrome. Older versions of Internet Explorer may not work right.

ADMIN

07:11

Welcome to the second day of the conference!

Ville-Veikko Intovuori

12:29

According to the BWMC Article 9, ship ballast water can be always sampled. However, sampling all ships or sampling ships randomly, would be resource consuming and leaves other matters (like safety issues) on minor attention. Therefore, we are following the IMO PSC Guidelines.

Matthias Voigt

12:17

As a note: There are also some approaches in development within ISO about this issue. Namely ISO NP 3725 Methodology for validating indicative analysis tools used for monitoring ballast water, and on sampling ISO 11711 Parts 1 to 3

Anonymous

12:14

Thanks. It means that the ballast inspector has no right take ballast water samples if documentations is ok. There have risk for falce papers.

Ville-Veikko Intovuori

12:06

In general, sampling in PSC is conducted only if ship fails two first steps of inspection, meaning initial inspection (documentation and inspection round) and detailed inspection. Four step inspection process is described in the PSC Guidelines MEPC.252(67).

Anonymous

11:54

"PSC inspection contains also BWMC inspection". Also every inspection have checked samples from ballast water? Or only if pappers are ok we automaticaly trust that samples are also ok?

Ville-Veikko Intovuori

11:46

I checked that 15 % of ships visiting in Finland are PSC inspected annually. This means that about 270 ships annually. I assume that percentage is about same between different countries. PSC inspection contains also BWMC inspection. More information for the content of the inspection can be found from the IMO PSC Guidelines MEPC.252(67). I hope this helps!

Miina Karjalainen

11:39

Apologies, we started with the wrong short movie, here is the correct one about the Ballast Water Management compliance monitoring.

Miina Karjalainen

11:27

Thank you @Mostafa, all the presentations will be recorded and available at the conference web page afterwards: https://balticcomplete.com/news/final-conference

Mostafa

11:25

I missed the beginning of this great conference/presentations . is it possible to review it again on line . thank you

Anonymous

11:22

From now it means if inspected 10 vessels per year for country according ballast water convention this system formaly working. I see problem here.

Andy

11:15

If the vessel is bound from Hamburg to Helsinki via Kiel Kanal. as per map High Risk. Where should the vessel exchange ballast?

Anonymous

11:14

Is there minimum amount of vessel which must be checked according ballast water convention?

Anonymous

11:12

How big is penalty for ballast water not in accordance with the norm in EU ?

Piotr Gruszka

10:59

Why only the Baltic is mentioned in the RA algorithm? Is OSPAR excluded from JHP?

Gordon Copp

10:56

Is the RA tool in English only, or are there other language options so as to reduce linguistic uncertainty?

burkard watermann

10:55

why only human pathogens?

Carl L. Ahrens

10:55

Is there anny active roll for local port authorities intended?

Jenni Kakkonen

10:44

Are the port baseline surveys repeated at regular intervals?

Anonymous

10:40

How long would it take to get a new species, observed in the Baltic Sea, to be included in the Target Species list, if it fulfils the TS criteria?

Okko Outinen

10:28

How often do you receive requests about ballast water exemptions from ship operators? Are the ship operators often counting on receiving an exemption, or do they prefer using ballast water management systems?

Admin

10:21

Please send your questions and comments during the presentations.

Kim Lundgreen

09:19

Not using chrome was the issue, thanks for the advice.

Admin

09:18

@Kim. Please advice them to turn off any VPN connections or try on another browser. Google Chrome is the recommended browser to use. They can also join with mobile devices.

Kim Lundgreen

09:15

Two of my Danish colleagues cannot enter through the provided link. Do you have a feeling other attendees are missing?

Gordon Copp

09:15

Yes

Admin

09:03

@Sakari. Nyt pitäisi näkyä. Paina "Play" videonruudun keskeltä.

Sakari Kuikka

09:00

En saa puhujia näkyviin?

Admin

08:46

Please press "Play" in the video screen and also see that audio is enabled. You can find the audio controls in the right bottom corner of the video screen.