The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released a draft plan seeking to prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species (AIS)1 in the state.2 The draft plan follows by about 20 years the DEC’s 1993 “Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Management Plan,”3 suggesting that the AIS problem continues to bedevil state regulators and the businesses and individuals relying on the state’s marine and fresh water resources—more than 20,000 lakes, ponds, and reservoirs and 87,000 miles of rivers and streams4—for commercial and recreational purposes. The draft plan notes that AIS have been found in approximately 500 waterbodies throughout the state, but the problem is believed to be much greater as most of the state’s water resources do not have AIS surveillance programs.5
The draft plan proposes over 50 actions to be implemented over the next five years. This column first discusses the extent of the AIS problem in New York and then explores the most significant strategies contained in the draft plan, especially its proposed legislative and regulatory aspects.
AIS in New York
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