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Description:
Title:
Lionfish response management plan, U.S. Virgin Islands : update February 2014
Alternate Title:
Lionfish response management plan update
Author(s):
Kilgo, Jamie M.
Castillo, Bernard, II
Travis, Jenn
Edwards, Kitty
Gustafson, Norm
Brown, Jeanne B., 1974-
Rubattino, John
Packauslkas, Nadija
Hillis-Starr, Zandy
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Nature Conservancy (U.S.)
Corporate Name:
United States, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Coral Reef Conservation Program (U.S.)
Nature Conservancy (U.S.)
Dates of Publication:
2014
Abstract:
This updated territorial Lionfish Response Management Plan addresses the potential ecological and economic threat posed by invasive lionfish with specific strategies for education and outreach, removal, research and monitoring, marketing, and communications. The plan was designed to establish agreed-upon goals and objectives and to build a framework for meeting these objectives through coordination among organizations, agencies, businesses and individuals. Since the creation of the original response plan in 2009, the severity of the lionfish invasion has worsened, local circumstances have changed, and researchers, managers and citizen groups are more organized and knowledgeable about what is working and what is not"--Executive summary.
Keywords:
Control
Coral reef conservation
Coral reef ecology
Coral reef management
Introduced organisms
Marine ecosystem management
Pterois miles
Pterois volitans
Place Keywords:
United States Virgin Islands
Local Corporate Name:
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Type of Resource:
Professional Paper
Note:
This updated territorial Lionfish Response Management Plan addresses the potential ecological and economic threat posed by invasive lionfish with specific strategies for education and outreach, removal, research and monitoring, marketing, and communications. The plan was designed to establish agreed-upon goals and objectives and to build a framework for meeting these objectives through coordination among organizations, agencies, businesses and individuals. Since the creation of the original response plan in 2009, the severity of the lionfish invasion has worsened, local circumstances have changed, and researchers, managers and citizen groups are more organized and knowledgeable about what is working and what is not"--Executive summary.
2014
Grant no. NA10NOS4190061
CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)
Library
Public Domain
1858
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