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Bighead carp

Invasive Species Committee
Fact Sheet (pdf-139 Kb)

Proceedings of the Asian Carp Working Group Meeting
5/24/2004 - Columbia, MO
(pdf-11.5 Mb)

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Invasive Species News
Receive Notification when Invasives are Reported in Your Area >> USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) Alert System allows you to register to receive e-mail notifications when invasives are reported in your state or area.

Use HACCP Planning to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Species >> HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) is a pathway management tool used to help identify invasive species risks and focus procedures to prevent their spread through natural resource pathways. These pathways could include electrofishing, gillnetting, wetland monitoring, hatchery operations, or movement of livestock. HACCP planning is suitable for managers, biologists, technicians, and those in private industry. For more information, contact your regional USFWS ANS Coordinator or go to the HACCP website, www.HACCP-NRM.org

Useful Invasive Species Links
Great Lakes Aquatic Nonindigenous Species List (NOAA)
Invasivespecies.gov
FWS Division of Invasive Species
Invasive and Exotic Species of North America

Invasive Species Committee

There are numerous terrestrial and aquatic invasive species that are problematic and threaten
the Great Lakes basin ecosystem.

The Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team has formed an Invasive Species Committee and is addressing invasive species issues through:

The production and distribution of outreach and educational materials as a means of prevention,

Identifying invasive species priorities,

Collaborating with critical stakeholders across the Great Lakes, and

Securing unique funding to support these and future projects.

Invasive Species Issues in the Great Lakes Ecosystem

FISH

AQUATIC PLANTS

Asian carp Curly leaf pondweed (GLIN)

Eurasian ruffe
Eurasian watermilfoil

Northern snakehead Hydrilla

Round goby Purple loosestrife

Sea Lamprey Managment (Great Lakes Fishery Commission) Water chestnut

INVERTEBRATES

TERRESTRIAL PLANTS

Asian longhorned beetle (US Forest Service) Canada thistle

Emerald ash borer Common reed

European gypsy moth Japanese knotweed

New Zealand mudsnail (USGS)
ISSUES

Rusty crayfish (GLIN) Ballast water

Spiny waterflea (GLIN)
Fishhook waterflea (US EPA) Chicago Shipping Canal Barrier (Wisconsin Sea Grant)

Zebra mussel

Asian Carp
Asian Carp Work Group Information
Asian Carp Working Group Meeting Proceedings 5/24/2004-Columbia, MO (pdf-11.5 Mb)
Asian Carp brochure (pdf-152Kb)
Asian Carp Key brochure (pdf-342Kb)
Bighead Carp Potential Injurious Species Candidate (9/17/2003)
Silver Carp Potential Injurious Species Candidate (7/24/2003)
Options for Agencies to Slow Asian Carp Invasion (3/19/2004)
More Asian Carp Information (Great Lakes Fishery Commission)

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