Final post

While doing this blog throughout the semester I can say I've learned a lot about aquatic invasive species that I didn't know existed, including many regulations and techniques to prevent the spread and growth of invasives.
While doing research on all the different types of ways we try to stop the the spread and growth of aquatic invasiveso made me really agree with Evans in that we need both government and governance to be working as one in order to really make a difference in this field. I think while we need to have the government involved to not only provide funding but to also help with enforcement in certain situations when getting people or companies to work along is difficult. We also need the governance from small organizations to make sure that the work is actually being implemented and done.
One of the limitations of this area is that both of these groups don't always work together and it makes things difficult to accomplish. I covered mostly the area of Sea Lamprey regulation and while in the past few years there has been a lot of progress made there is still a far way to go. While many of the different tactics for stopping the spread of invasives have worked, I think one of the better ones is education. If we can educate people on ways they can help and give them better descriptions of what they should be looking for than I think we could see even more of a decline in aquatic invasive species.