| | National Control Plan for Northern Pacific Seastar (Asterias amurensis) Implementation Workshop May 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Various preventative techniques are already available, and their application provides an immediate and more certain return on investment and also circumvents the considerable economic and environmental cost and uncertainty of seeking to control established populations, given that control options have yet to be developed. |
 | | The preliminary hazard analysis identified nineteen vector groups, which were then characterised and ranked according to six attributes, such as the relative range and volume of a vector group. |
 | | Seastar larvae and non-larvae, which include both adults and juveniles, were assessed separately as the behaviour of each of these life-stages is markedly different. |
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