Establishing benchmarks in compliance assessment for the ballast water management convention by port state control

Establishing benchmarks in compliance assessment for the ballast water management convention by port state control D.A. Wrighta,b∗ and N.A. Welschmeyerc aChesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD 20688, USA; bEnvironmental Research Services, PO Box 38349, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA; cMoss Landing Marine Laboratories, 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, CA 95039-0450, USA