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Mussels destroying link in Lake Michigan food web
By John Flesher, Associated Press Last update: February 18, 2009 - 5:15 PM http://www.startribune.com/local/397...D3aPc:_Yyc:aUU excerpts from above. Quote:
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Heron
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Maricopa , Arizona , U.S.A.
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This would be the zebra and its stronger relation the quagga mussel These things are almost across all the lower 48 states now . Showed up in the Colorado river leess than three years ago and is now already in several of Arizona's inland irragation canal systems . Little to stop them that I see . There have been several "Don't move a mussel " programs tried by various states with little to no sucess . They are in California , several California lakes have banned new boat launchungs . Boats required to do pressure washings , severe fines imposed on boats found to have them when attempting to launch .
These critters are going to decimate wildlife while at the same time adding millons-billons in upkeep to water supplies . |
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Greensboro, Alabama USA
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http://www.solecregistration.ca/docu...EC%202008).pdf
Ive spent many happy hours diving for mussels off Traverse City and in Lake Superior. I presume in the 1950s these would have been native mussels. |
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Heron
Join Date: Jan 2009
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A report on quagga's possible impact that you could find of interest ;
http://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/progra...imony/SNWA.pdf Mussels effect on birds in the great lakes region ( this is just the beginning ) http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2007...ing_birds.html |
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Heron
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Maricopa , Arizona , U.S.A.
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http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/broch.../musselpop.pdf Gone are the happy days of your mussel diving ! |
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Location: Greensboro, Alabama USA
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Couldn't stay on the bottom long enough to collect a bucket of mussels now a days!
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Zebra mussels force Prior Lake alert
Last update: April 14, 2009 - 11:52 PM Zebra mussels force Prior Lake alert excerpts from above: Quote:
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