# Trends in Compliance Monitoring Devices (CMDs) in Ships' Ballast Water Treatment Systems
### Contribution of Study and Research Method  
Considering the aforementioned potential environmental and economic damage that a bio-invasion (or any other catastrophic environmental destabilization) may unleash, it is essential that government administrations of different nations continue to build a network of preventative measures that ensure that ballast water moved around international waters measures up to agreed international regulation. When protecting the environment, all threats are essential to monitor and react to; for example, the destruction of homes by wild-fires in the East Coast, although it was a land natural disaster due to wind speeds, there is a questioning of whether or not overregulation and other disaster readiness of the policies of the State were to blame for the devastation in an investigation by the House Committee of the USA [12]. The land fire example is used as an illustration here to show how important it is to work towards disaster management on all fronts, in every nation. All potential environmental threats matter greatly; however, this paper limits its emphasis to ballast water monitoring as the primary focus. Much more data from scientists offers us a chance to consider how successful ballast water laws and the technology that supports it has fared since adoption in recent years.  
Current ballast water management requires a special focus on monitoring methods which are a primary tool and especially useful for preventing any further bio-invasions, which are known for their disastrous consequences. Let us consider, for example, the destruction of the fishing stocks in the Caspian Sea due to jellyfish that were introduced to that environment by the ballast water tanks of ships [13]. The Caspian Sea continues to be monitored by the scientific community, providing rich statistical lessons of ocean and sea health; however, with retrospective insight today, it is now understood that much more could have been accomplished if the invasion was altogether prevented through early detection and reactions to marine threats. However, ballast water technology was not up to today's standards when this disaster occurred in the 1990s, Supplementary Material in the form of a documentary can be referred to on this topic [13] (p. 2).  
Compliance methods are technologies that are new to the shipping community and this paper tests their effectiveness while also highlighting the new electronic ballast water books which a ship must have. In a unique approach, this paper will provide ship managers with the latest ballast water requirements, which involve electronic data sharing, thus allowing ships to prepare for and invest in the latest compliance support technologies in the area of ballast water monitoring, reporting and marine environmental protection. With regard to sharing data, each ship must of course also make plans for cyber security, preventing confidential data breaches while fighting bio-invasions.  
This paper is a qualitative analysis of data and findings taken and sampled from various sources of the scientific community. Furthermore, ballast water management practices are considered to give the reader a pragmatic understanding of modern ballast water practices. Scientific experiments related to the sampling and monitoring of ballast water that is treated, the use of devices in testing treated ballast water, and the capturing and sharing of that data are strategically used in this paper to identify key premises that identify sample monitoring device trends or practices to determine how effective these methods are in compliance with the Ballast Water Convention.