2017 Monitoring and Response Plan for Asian Carp in the Mississippi River Basin

The 2017 Monitoring and Response Plan provides a summary of the collaborative partnership efforts planned in Fiscal Year 2017 to implement invasive carp control strategy frameworks developed for the Ohio River Basin and Upper Mississippi River Basin, two sub-basins within the larger Mississippi River Basin. These sub-basin control strategy frameworks are step-down plans of the national Management and Control Plan for Bighead, Black, Grass, and Silver Carps in the United States.

The 2017 Monitoring and Response Plan includes nine project plans funded (in full or in part) by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fiscal Year 2017 base funding to address the highest priority prevention and control needs for invasive carp in the Ohio River Basin and Upper Mississippi River Basin as identified by the respective sub-basin planning teams. Most projects included in the Monitoring and Response Plan will begin in 2017, but may include additional field work in 2018.