Complete report - Partners for Clean Streams

ISSUE 17: CONTROL OF INTRODUCED SPECIES
Actions Suggested
in the Maumee RAP
Recommendations
Report
It is recommended that penalties be
developed that would provide strong
deterrents to the intentional and/or
negligent release of exotic species.
(2.3.5.2)
Recommend that the federal Exotic
Species Control Act be passed and
supported with permanent regulations
prohibiting foreign freshwater ballast
discharges be implemented. (2.3.5.2)
Action
$
National
%
Activity
Invasive
Species Act
Nonindigenous
Aquatic Nuisance
Prevention and
Control Act
National Invasive
Species Act
Ballast Water
Exchange Program
Maumee
RAP
Involvement
Date
Beneficial
Use
Affected
See
Page
None 1996 3 216
None 1990 216
3
None 1996 216
None
1990s-
Present
Incentives should be developed that
would promote increased levels of
control on private wetlands. (2.3.5.2)
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ACTIVITIES NOT IN THE 1991 RAP RECOMMENDATIONS REPORT
%
ODNR Purple
Loosestrife
Removal Plan
216
None Ongoing 3, 14 224
Activities and Accomplishments
in the Maumee Area of Concern
50
Issue 17: Control of
Introduced Species