User Specific Prevention Procedures

User-specific Prevention Procedures for Stopping Aquatic Hitchhikers: Advise for specific recreational users

Incorporate prevention procedures when conducting your pre/post-trip activities. Whenever you go on and return from a trip to the water, there are many steps you take to get ready for or to complete your trip. Since you are now aware of the aquatic hitchhiker issue, you can add preventive steps to every trip.

The following information will help people who participate in specific recreational activities to incorporate prevention procedures into their activities, which will prevent the spread of aquatic hitchhikers.

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The Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers web site is part of the ANS Task Force public
awareness campaign and is sponsored by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and the U.S. Coast Guard.

Partnership Opportunities

- Current Partners
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State Info Pages

News

Check out the Latest News about the Stop Aquatic Hitchhiker Campaign and the Expanding Aquatic Hitchhiker Problem.

Test your aquatic nuisance species knowledge with the Who Wants To Be A Fish Biologist game.

Recreational Activities

Boating, Fishing, Swimming, Waterfowl Hunting, SCUBA Diving or Snorkeling, Windsurfing, Seaplane Operations, Personal Watercraft Use, Recreational Bait Harvesting

Common Hitchhikers

Zebra Mussels, Hydrilla, Whirling Disease, Spiny Water Fleas, Round Gobies, Water Hyacinth

Video Clips

Asian Carp in the Upper Mississippi River
(Real Video format)

Round Goby
(Quicktime Format)

New Audio Messages for Traveler Information Systems

Zebra Mussel (mp3)
Zebra Mussel #2 (mp3)