This report provides an assessment of progress toward harmonization of prohibited AIS in Great Lakes states and provinces over the last decade, including a comparison of current regulated species lists across the Great Lakes basin to regulations that existed in 2012, the first time that a comprehensive list of all regulated aquatic invasive species was compiled for the basin. Available data from a subset of regionally relevant risk assessment processes has also been compiled to identify a group of species for which there are multiple lines of evidence to justify regulatory action across the basin.
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