Resource Number: 14601
Title: Regional Biosecurity Plan for Micronesia and Hawaii - Volume I
Publisher: US Department of the Navy
Description: The purpose of this regional biosecurity plan is to act as a tool with which to help enhance the
coordination of current management efforts, identify remaining problem areas and gaps, and
recommend additional actions that are needed to effectively address IAS issues within jurisdictions as
well as regionally. The focus of this plan is the identification of feasible, cost-effective management
practices to be implemented by appropriate authorities for the environmentally sound prevention and
control of IAS in a coordinated fashion.
The goal of the plan is to provide recommendations that, if appropriately implemented, will minimize
the harmful ecological, social, cultural, and economic impacts of IAS through the prevention and
management of their introduction, expansion, and dispersal into, within, and from the region and the
jurisdictions of the region. Objectives that need to be addressed in order to advance towards the goal
include: securing funding, coordination and collaboration, prevention, monitoring, early detection and
rapid response, management and eradication (where feasible), education and outreach, research,
policy, and restoration.
Last Updated: June 21, 2019
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