A.44. SUMMARY OF AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT IN TEXAS 
A.44.1. AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES MANAGEMENT PLAN 
Plan under development. 
A.44.2. AQUATIC INVASIVE SPECIES PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES 
• Golden Alga Task Force/Kills and Spills Team, Texas Parks and Wildlife 
Department (TPWD), Inland Fisheries. The program responds to fish and wildlife 
kills and pollution incidents, minimizes environmental degradation, conducts 
compensation, repair, and restoration for environmental damage, and monitors golden 
alga levels. The program also provides education on the relationship between water 
quality, habitat, and living organisms. 
• Aquatic Habitat Enhancement Program, Nuisance Vegetation Control, Texas 
TPWD, Inland Fisheries. This program focuses on the control of aquatic vegetation 
that affects the health and recreational use of TPWD-managed fish and wildlife 
resources. 
• Texas Invasive Species Coordinating Committee, formed as of December 2006, 
involving eight state agencies. The goal of this multi-agency committee is to facilitate 
cooperation among state agencies and to help prevent, control, and manage invasive 
species. 
A.44.3. CLIMATE CHANGE CONCERNS 
• Warmer winters and lack of freezing winter temperatures may contribute to the 
persistence and spread of introduced invasive aquatic vegetation species such as water 
hyacinth, giant salvinia, and common salvinia. 
A.44.4. CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIONS 
(None reported.) 
A.44.5. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION USED 
• Research golden alga is being conducted, including 
o using clay treatments to control golden alga blooms; 
o determining the economic impacts of golden alga fish kills on the Possum Kingdom 
area; 
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