- Protect Your Waters and Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers!
Provides information for recreational boaters in the U.S. who want to help stop aquatic nuisance species.
www.protectyourwaters.net
- Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS)
Information resource for the United States Geological Survey.
nas.er.usgs.gov
- Sea Grant Nonindigenous Species Site (SGNIS)
National information center that contains a comprehensive collection of research publications and education materials on zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance species.
www.sgnis.org
- 100th Meridian Initiative
Cooperative effort between U.S. state, provincial, and federal agencies to prevent the westward spread of zebra mussels and other aquatic nuisance species in North America.
100thmeridian.org
- Exotic Species and Their Effects on the Great Lakes
Provides identification and profile sheets for the Round Goby, Sea Lamprey, Spiny Water Flea, Zebra Mussel, Ruffe, Purple Loosestrife.
www.great-lakes.org/exotics.html
- Eleventh International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species
Looks at ships as a vector for invasive species transfer, Zebra Mussel control technologies, and aquatic plant assessments.
www.aquatic-invasive-species-conference.org
- National Marine Invasions Center - Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Smithsonian_Environmental_Research_Center__SERC_/National_Marine_Invasions_Center
- Non-Native Invasive Species in the Great Lakes
Teacher resource identifying the non-native invasive species have become established in and around the Great Lakes since the 1800s.
www.great-lakes.net/teach/pollution/ans/ans_1.html
- Field Guide to Aquatic Exotic Plants and Animals
Part of the Minnesota Sea Grant exotic species outreach program.
www.seagrant.umn.edu/exotics/fieldguide.html
- Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory Nonindigenous Species Program
Examining the role of the zebra mussel in promoting nuisance blooms of the potentially toxic blue-green alga Microcystis on Saginaw Bay and the effects of these blooms on the ecosystem and the mussels themselves.
www.glerl.noaa.gov/res/Programs/nsmain.html
- Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program
Information from the USGS Florida Caribbean Science Center.
www.fcsc.usgs.gov/Nonindigenous_Species/nonindigenous_species.html
- Aquatic Nuisance Species in Arizona
Contains working documents regarding zebra mussels, exotic aquatic plants, and other aquatic nuisance species.
ag.arizona.edu/azaqua/extension/ANS/ANS.htm
- Alien Ocean: Understanding Species Invasions
Videos, fact sheets, and news releases from the Maryland Sea Grant program. Focuses on exotics in the Chesapeake Bay region.
www.mdsg.umd.edu/exotics
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Zebra Mussel Research Program
Federally authorized research program for the development of technology to control Zebra Mussels.
www.wes.army.mil/el/zebra
- Nonindigenous Bryozoans Distribution Information
Maps from the USGS showing where these colonial, sessile animals can be found.
nas.er.usgs.gov/taxgroup/Bryozoans
- SCDNR Aquatic Nuisance Species Program
Lists illegal aquatic plants in South Carolina, addresses the Zebra Mussel threat, and provides information about their habitat enhancement programs.
water.dnr.state.sc.us/water/envaff/aquatic
- Live and Fresh Seafood: Into the Pan, Not Into the Wild
Learn what you can do to prevent the introduction of marine and freshwater invasive seafood, such as finfish, crabs, oysters, clams, turtles, algae, and any animals or plants that may travel on seafood and seafood products.
18.48.1.217/seafood
|