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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utah's Electric Lake (Zebra mussels)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 11/20/08 | Mike Stark - ap

Posted on 11/20/2008 10:52:25 AM PST by NormsRevenge

SALT LAKE CITY – Trouble-making zebra mussels have arrived in Utah. But not where they were expected to show up.

Electric Lake is Utah's first body of water where the damaging, nonnative mussels have been confirmed, state wildlife officials said Wednesday.

The officials said they were surprised the fast-spreading mussels appeared there first because it's a high-elevation lake with relatively few boaters. It is boaters who sometimes unknowingly transport the mussels from lake to lake on their crafts.

Most expected the mussels to show up first at Lake Powell.

The mussels "showed up in one of the least-expected places," said Larry Dalton, aquatic invasive species coordinator for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. "That's how bewildering this little devil is."

Zebra mussels and their cousins, quagga mussels, were inadvertently introduced into the Great Lakes about 20 years ago. They reproduce and spread rapidly, threatening food sources for fish and clogging machinery and water pipes.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: confirmed; invasive; invasivespecies; mussel; quagga; utah; zebra
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1 posted on 11/20/2008 10:52:25 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

These guys can be tough on power plant cooling water intakes.


2 posted on 11/20/2008 10:53:31 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah, they really do overpopulate.

But on the other hand, they really do clean up the water too.


3 posted on 11/20/2008 10:53:55 AM PST by Pessimist
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Zebra Mussel

http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/zebramussel.shtml


4 posted on 11/20/2008 10:54:50 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: NormsRevenge

They’re trying to mussel in on the territory.


5 posted on 11/20/2008 10:56:06 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (Flexing their mussels.)
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Quagga Mussel

http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/quagga.shtml


6 posted on 11/20/2008 10:56:06 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: NormsRevenge
Check with New Zealand on what this means.

I suspect sabotage. Didn't Dick Cheney find some zebra mussels in his pace maker?

7 posted on 11/20/2008 10:56:35 AM PST by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: NormsRevenge; thackney

Can they be eaten?..............


8 posted on 11/20/2008 10:56:36 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: NormsRevenge

0bama’s fault


9 posted on 11/20/2008 10:57:12 AM PST by YHAOS
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To: Red Badger

ahhh, I don’t see any recipes,, but.. ;-)


10 posted on 11/20/2008 10:57:26 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: Charles Henrickson

Harvest, cook, can, sell................

11 posted on 11/20/2008 10:57:50 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: NormsRevenge

They’re screwed.


12 posted on 11/20/2008 10:58:10 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.)
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To: Red Badger
Not if you are expecting to get a meal without a LOT of work.

A couple thousand for a meal, I would guess.

13 posted on 11/20/2008 10:59:00 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yea who cares though!

Enviro whacko’s need to shut up and accept that this is the return species we are replacing for destroting the 8 Toed German Field Mouse or some other such nonsense.

If they area problem for the power plants, then come with a deadly to clam solution and can the crying.


14 posted on 11/20/2008 10:59:17 AM PST by GulfBreeze (McCain/Palin 08 (It's about CREATING wealth, stupid! Not spreading it.))
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To: thackney

Protein is protein........


15 posted on 11/20/2008 10:59:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: thackney

Put them in a press and use the squished parts for soup at high end restaraunts...


16 posted on 11/20/2008 11:00:18 AM PST by GulfBreeze (McCain/Palin 08 (It's about CREATING wealth, stupid! Not spreading it.))
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17 posted on 11/20/2008 11:00:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: Pessimist

Too bad they’re too tiny to be eaten. Are they edible anyway?


18 posted on 11/20/2008 11:01:05 AM PST by brooklyn dave (Four Years of Socialism)
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To: NormsRevenge

They will eventually be in every lake since boaters go from lake to lake without thoroughly cleaning their boats.


19 posted on 11/20/2008 11:02:20 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220 (Thanks to the robber barons in D.C. and on Wall St. I've been forced to become a minimalist.)
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To: Red Badger
Of course it doesn't take long to get a lot of them growing (hence the problem)


20 posted on 11/20/2008 11:02:42 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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