[neverdem]

IIRC, the NY Times had a story about ocean going ships dumping ballast water with zebra mussels in the Hudson River not far from Albany, NY about 2 decades ago.

[hinckley buzzard]

That's how they came to the Great Lakes. One benefit, they clean up the water dramatically, and game fish have managed to coexist.

[neverdem]

I don’t need to hear about Rachel Carson. DDT, used often enough, also breads resistance in the pests we don’t want, e.g. mosquitoes. It’s easy to Google DDT resitance.

[KC Burke]

These thing are bad and really mess with intakes at power plants and elsewhere. Once they are in a watershed or river system, their progress is unstoppable -— until now, it appears.

Great if it works.

[JimRed]

Do they taste good? If so, there’s an opportunity.

[Monitor]

Maybe there is hope.

Today, for the first time since the 1800s, there are no commercial fishing boats operating out of Milwaukee. The boats are gone because the fish are gone.

[Monitor]

Now, if only we could get the FIBs to close off the Illinois River to keep the Asian Carp from getting into Lake Michigan.

[neverdem]

A good subspecies of Pseudomonas is lethal to these silent invaders.

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[Bon of Babble]

DH boats in California and Nevada and they ALWAYS do through checks of his fishing boat and recreational craft — says they’re looking for those mussels.

In “Life After People” it showed that the intake valves for the hydropower Hoover Dam have to be “blown out” every once in a while because of invasive “Eurasian” quagga mussels and without people, the power would eventually go off.

They’ve also invaded David, Mojave and Parker dams.

[DJ MacWoW]

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