Budget Agreement Includes Funding for Efforts to Stop Asian Carp

National Wildlife Federation news release

Silver carp jumping.                                         (Photo: Ryan Hagerty/USFWS)

WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 18, 2019) – A budget agreement passed yesterday by the U.S. House of Representatives to fund the U.S. government for fiscal year 2020 includes several priorities for efforts to control, eradicate, and stop invasive Asian carp. The budget agreement allocates funding to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for efforts to stop Asian carp across the country, from reducing their numbers in Tennessee and Kentucky to keeping them out of the Great Lakes. 

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Tennessee Wildlife Federation has been central in the effort that increased that amount by $14M and opened funding up to Southeastern states for the first time.