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CMIST is a peer-reviewed screening-level risk assessment tool for marine invasive species (Drolet et al. 2016). It is a short questionnaire that follows the invasion process from arrival to impact and is designed so an informed assessor can evaluate one species in an assessment area in approximately one day using easily accessible information from internet databases, primary literature, and grey literature. Species can be those with an invasion history in an area or those that are candidates for future invasions. CMIST is score-based and incorporates both likelihood and impact of invasion as well as uncertainty. Questions are general to make CMIST broadly applicable to different taxa, different assessment areas, and different project goals. To date, CMIST has been tested with molluscs, tunicates, crustaceans, and polychaetes introduced or at risk of introduction to three Canadian marine ecoregions (DFO 2009). CMIST has also been successfully applied to non-indigenous freshwater fish in British Columbia with adapted guidelines (T. Therriault, pers. comm.). Upon completion, CMIST produces a risk score adjusted for the assessor’s uncertainty which, combined with information collected during the assessment, can be used to assist in management decisions. For example, in 2015, CMIST assessments were used to identify high risk invaders in three Canadian marine ecoregions (DFO 2016).

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Data Dictionary	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/4d0f0189-223b-420e-ba41-334eeb55e9fc/attachments/CMISTDataDictionary.csv
CMIST dataset	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/4d0f0189-223b-420e-ba41-334eeb55e9fc/attachments/CMIST_export_joined.csv
Canadian Marine Invasive Screening Tool (CMIST)	Unknown		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/4d0f0189-223b-420e-ba41-334eeb55e9fc/attachments/CMISTextents.gdb.zip
Canadian Marine Invasive Screening Tool (CMIST)	Ersi REST		https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/Canadian_Marine_Invasive_Screening_Tool/MapServer
Canadian Marine Invasive Screening Tool (CMIST)	Ersi REST		https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/Canadian_Marine_Invasive_Screening_Tool/MapServer

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