What is North Dakota Game and Fish doing about ANS?

Prevention is the best approach to ANS, because they are difficult or nearly impossible to remove once established. However, prevention requires that everyone take appropriate steps to ensure full compliance. So, we focus a lot of our resources on teaching ANS prevention methods to boaters, anglers, construction workers, power plants, and anyone using our waters. To reinforce these educational efforts, we have carefully designed regulations that further minimize the likelihood of transporting ANS and water into and within the state. We sample waters annually to detect the presence of new ANS, and to monitor our existing populations, and coordinate within North Dakota and our region to identify new and existing threats.