2015 Briefing Recap: Great Lakes Days – Congressional Briefing on Asian Carp

NEMWI hosted a briefing on the status of Asian carp in the Great Lakes and beyond on February 24, 2015. The briefing featured research, monitoring, and removal efforts in 2014 and planned efforts for 2015. In addition, speakers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) described early efforts to implement the 2014 Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) requirements of Asian carp work in the Ohio River and Upper Mississippi River. Materials available here.