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Managing Invasive and Nuisance Species

About the new Buzzards Bay CCMP Action Plans
The Buzzards Bay NEP is now updating our 1992 landmark Buzzards Bay Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) to reflect the great progress achieved since that plan was finalized. It will include new goals, objectives, and recommendations to meet the environmental needs for Buzzards Bay and its surrounding watershed into the next decade of the 21^st century. This new document will also meet the requirements for a Massachusetts Watershed Action Plan, which will enable new funding opportunities through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

On this page is a draft action plan from the updated Buzzards Bay Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan and planned 2009-2014 Watershed Action Plan. The text on this page is a public draft provided to invite comment and discussion of the subject by residents and stakeholders. It may contain goals and recommendations that have not yet been endorsed or approved by the Buzzards Bay Steering Committee. The views or information contained here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the US Environmental Protection Agency.

We want your feedback on this action plan. At the bottom of this page is a link for you to provide comments on each goal, objective and recommendation contained in this Action Plan. Based on your feedback, we will update and revise all the action plans in the new CCMP.

Action Plan 13: Managing Invasive and Nuisance Species

October 25, 2006 draft

Goals

Goal 1. Minimize the potential introduction of new invasive and nuisance species to Buzzards Bay and its surrounding watershed.

Goal 2. Reduce the extent and limit the spread of existing invasive and nuisance species that are degrading habitats of Buzzards Bay and its surrounding watershed.

Objectives

Objective 1. Adopt and enforce laws, regulations, and policies the will reduce the potential spread of invasive species.

Objective 2. Educate the public, farmers, nursery owners, fisherman, pet store owners, the shipping industry, and other relevant sectors about individual actions that can be taken to reduce the threat of introducing invasive and nuisance species to the environment.

Objective 3. Fund and promote actions and studies to control and reduce existing populations of invasive and nuisance species.

Recommendations

Recommendation 13.1 Coastal Zone Management, in collaboration with the BBNEP and Coalition for Buzzards Bay, continue to work with other state agencies and partners to implement public and industry education program on marine invasive species.

Recommendation 13.2 The Department of Environmental Protection and the Massachusetts Depart of Food and Agriculture continue programs to educate the public about freshwater and terrestrial invasives, and review implementation and enforcement of new laws and regulations prohibiting the sale of prohibited species, and expand the efforts to educate the public and nurseries about that list.

Recommendation 13.3 Coastal Zone Management and the Buzzards Bay NEP coordinate with state and federal manage to monitor at least biannually the four sites previously monitored in Buzzards Bay (Buzzards Bay Village, New Bedford Harbor, Westport Harbor, and Woods Hole).

* This Action Plan was not in the 1992 CCMP.

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