Journal of Biodiversity and Maritime Study is an Open Access journal, which is free to access and read on the Internet. The publisher guarantees that no reader will ever have to buy a subscription or pay-per-view fees to access the articles published in this journal. In order to cover the costs of providing and maintaining a publication infrastructure, managing the journals, and processing the manuscripts through peer-review and the editorial procedure, the journal uses a form of conditional submission fee referred to as Article Processing Charge (APC).