Major Goals and Objectives

• Determine the importance of the trades in live bait, pets, water gardens, and biological supplies as pathways for the introduction of nonindigenous freshwater species
• Estimate the ecological and economic risks associated with given species in trade
• Reduce the numbers of high risk species in trade and to reduce the likelihood of release of organisms by customers

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