Key Focus Areas

Public Use

Increase recreational fishing and other sustainable uses of aquatic resources by the public.

Increase and improve physical access to aquatic resources for fishing and other recreational related activities.
Develop and implement a marketing program to increase participation in recreational fishing and other aquatic related recreation activities.
Provide public programs to cultivate fishing and outdoor recreation skills, and promote ethical use of natural resources.
Develop and implement management programs for recreational and commercial fisheries. top of page

Fishery Mitigation

Provide high quality angling opportunities at water development projects.

Improve and maintain water quality and quantity to meet State standards, also improve and maintain instream and riparian habitat.
Provide and maintain access to fisheries.
Continue to stock fish necessary to provide high quality fisheries to meet the needs of a diverse angling constituency.
Continuously monitor, evaluate, and manage waters impacted by water development projects. top of page

Imperiled Fish and Aquatic Species Recovery

Reduce the number of imperiled species in the Southeast.

Delisting of currently listed species (State and Federal) through recovery actions.
Prevent fish and other aquatic species from being listed.

Interjurisdictional Fisheries

Protect, conserve, and restore interjurisdictional fisheries in the Southeast.

Implement fishery management plans for southeast interjurisdictional fisheries.
Adaptive management plan for monitoring, evaluating and modifying fishery management plan. top of page

Aquatic Habitat Conservation

Aquatic habitats have appropriate biological, chemical and physical integrity to support healthy functional communities.

Impaired aquatic communities are restored or mitigated.
Existing aquatic communities are maintained or improved.

Aquatic Nuisance Species (ANS)

Prevent and control the impact of invasive species on the ecological, economic and societal values of the Southeast.

· Prevent new aquatic nuisance species introductions in the Southeast.
· Limit the spread of existing aquatic nuisance species in the Southeast.
· Eradicate new introductions when possible.

The aquatic nuisance species in the Southeast are described in a SARP ANS brochure(pdf)and at the following links: http://nas.er.usgs.gov/, http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/, http://www.se-eppc.org/

To achieve the goal of this key focus area, SARP member states and their partners are each developing and implementing an ANS management plan. Member state ANS resources (pdf). top of page