This proposal will work with industry and agency partners to develop a north american biosecurity plan and framework that lessens the threat of aquatic invasive species introduction and…

This proposal will work with industry and agency partners to develop a north american biosecurity plan and framework that lessens the threat of aquatic invasive species introduction and establishment the ease by which individuals can purchase a diversity of aquatic plants and animal species via mail, online, and at retail outlets in the US indicates that tremendous work is remaining to prevent invasive species spread in north america via this pathway multiple areas confound success in preventing invasive species spread in the organisms in trade landscape including, a global market that makes organisms available, insufficient federal and state regulations that define suitable species, inter agency jurisdictional weaknesses, lack of enforcement capacity for trade violations, entrepreneurial nature of buy sell for products, and lack of knowledge among sellers of species status and the proper identification of species sold this project will create a strategy to better address the various methods that allow for aquatic invasive species to be introduced and spread via the commerce pathway