{"id":17111,"date":"2020-09-27T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=17111"},"modified":"2020-09-27T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T16:56:00","slug":"tennessee-governor-bill-lee-creates-commission-to-address-asian-carp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/09\/27\/tennessee-governor-bill-lee-creates-commission-to-address-asian-carp\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee creates Commission to Address Asian Carp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-330575\" title=\"Tennessee State Government\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Tennessee-State-Government-2.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee State Government\" width=\"250\" height=\"74\">Nashville, TN <\/strong>&#8211; On Saturday, September 26th, 2020 Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed Executive Order No. 62 establishing the Asian Carp Advisory Commission to study and provide advice regarding the best methods for mitigating the invasion of Asian carp into the state\u2019s lakes and river systems.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_444646\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Lee.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-444646\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-444646\" title=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Tennessee-Governor-Bill-Lee-480x325.jpg\" alt=\"Tennessee Governor Bill Lee\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-444646\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tennessee Governor Bill Lee<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennessee\u2019s lakes and rivers are a critical feature of our state\u2019s economy and natural beauty,\u201d said Governor Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Commission will help us protect and preserve native fish species, aquatic life, commercial and recreational fishing, and other water activities from the increasing threat of Asian carp to key ecosystems in our state,\u201d Governor Lee Stated.<\/p>\n<h4>The members of the Commission will include representatives from the following agencies and departments:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission<\/li>\n<li>Department of Economic and Community Development<\/li>\n<li>Department of Tourist Development<\/li>\n<li>Department of Environment and Conservation<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee Valley Authority<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Army Corps of Engineers<\/li>\n<li>One appointee each from the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the House of Representatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Commission will provide interim reports in October and this winter, in addition to annual reports moving forward, regarding its findings and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville, TN &#8211; On Saturday, September 26th, 2020 Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed Executive Order No. 62 establishing the Asian Carp Advisory Commission to study and provide advice regarding the best methods for mitigating the invasion of Asian carp into the state\u2019s lakes and river systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[11906,12333,549,284,1862,2274,2918,7197,3350,604,608,7198,605,973,3831],"class_list":["post-17111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-asian-carp","tag-bill-lee","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-tennessee-department-of-economic-and-community-development","tag-tennessee-department-of-environment-and-conservation","tag-tennessee-department-of-tourist-development","tag-tennessee-fish-and-wildlife-commission","tag-tennessee-governor","tag-tennessee-valley-authority","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-tfwc","tag-tva","tag-twra","tag-u-s-army-corps-of-engineers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17112,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions\/17112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}