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A Tool for Preventing Non-native Invasive Species Spread: Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) planning for Hawaii and other Pacific Islands
Friday, August 1, 8:00 am-12:00 pm
Organizer: Jeffrey J. Herod, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Invasive Species Program, Pacific Islands Fish & Wildlife Office Fee: $20/personRegistration: Limited to 20 people (register on conference registration form) This workshop will provide the background and skills to establish competence in developing Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) plans and assist with proper implementation of these plans. Background information on HACCP will be applied to attendee’s experiences. Proficiency in plan development will be accomplished through classroom exercises. HACCP planning is used by many different organizations and industries (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, SEA GRANT, PILSBURY, NASA). The focus of this workshop is how and why HACCP is being applied to activities involving natural resources. This workshop will provide the basic elements and provide real-world situations as examples of how non-native invasive species can be inadvertently introduced by Natural Resource Managers and how this could be prevented. Natural resource managers inadvertently create pathways for the introduction and population augmentation of non-native invasive species. These pathways can result from conducting activities that are necessary for regulatory compliance and protection of public resources such as community monitoring, habitat surveys, habitat restoration, wild land fire fighting, and fish stocking. The participants will be asked to apply their skills and knowledge and develop HACCP plans during the workshop. These plans, once given final approval, will join other plans on the National Natural Resource Management HACCP website. This is the outreach and education website for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its partners on HACCP. This website provides 160 HACCP plans that can be used by others during the process of developing their specific HACCP plans. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Aquatic Nuisance Species program, has been providing training and introducing the topic of HACCP to its partners. HACCP is being used as a tool that meets the spirit and intent of Executive Order 13112 which was signed in 1999 by President William Clinton. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is providing the training, standardized training materials, technical assistance, and follow up to ensure that support is available to develop, implement, and revise HACCP plans as necessary. The vision for HACCP in the Pacific Islands is to provide people who interact with natural environments, the opportunity and skills to develop a transparent and science-based tool. This tool, HACCP, will help reduce the spread of non-native invasive species and make natural resource activities less prone to inadvertently introducing non-native species.
Tentative agenda
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