International Organization for Standardization

Water quality - Guidelines for quantitative sampling and sample processing of marine soft-bottom macrofauna - Second Edition
 N 16665

Annotation

This International Standard provides guidelines on the quantitative collection and processing of subtidal soft-bottom macrofaunal samples in marine waters.

This International Standard encompasses:

a) development of the sampling programme;

b) requirements for sampling equipment;

c) sampling and sample treatment in the field;

d) sorting and species identification;

e) storage of collected and processed material.

This International Standard does not specifically address the following, although some elements may be applicable:

— bioassay sub-sampling;

— deep water (>750 m) or offshore sampling;

— in situ faunal studies, e.g. recolonization assays;

— non-benthic organisms caught in the sampling device;

— estuarine sampling;

— intertidal sampling;

— meiofaunal sampling and analysis (see Reference [9]);

— sampling by dredge and sledge;

— self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) sampling;