A new cyber strategy is being employed to combat the spread of invasive species in the Great Lakes region – using a web crawler to search the Internet for outlets that are selling invasive fish, plants and other species.
The Great Lakes Commission received a $400,000 grant from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to develop a system for tracking sales of non-native species, according to a story today at Great Lakes Echo. The story reports that researchers have been able to buy Eurasian milfoil, Asian Carp and yellow flag iris online.
The Outdoor Journal 