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Alien Species in Chesapeake Bay
Wildlife Service, 1993-report Examples: Zebra Mussel: has clogged municipal and industrial water intake pipes and outcompeted native mussel populations in several major water bodies across North America. ... and social considerations. Past introductions of nonindigenous species have resulted in numerous declines in populations of native species (in many cases to the point of extinction) and ...
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Rideau Canal Waterway - Zebra Mussel Sightings
Zebra mussel populations grow and filter the water. Cottagers will get annoyed as water intake pipes get ... those changes. The following are zebra mussel and veliger (zebra mussel larvae) sightings on the Rideau waterway reported to the Invading Species Hotline. 1997 increases in populations in the Manotick area adult ...
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Brochures and Information Sheets - NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
PDF Managing the Impact of Multiple Stressors in Saginaw Bay (Sept. 2007) PDF The Zebra Mussel Connection: Harmful Algal Blooms and the ECOHAB Project (September 2007) PDF Chemical Disinfection of ... International Field Years on Lake Erie (IFYLE) (Updated May 2008) PDF Bottom Life Changes in Mussel Populations in the Great Lakes (Updated September 2002) PDF The Impact of Diporeia spp. Decline on ...
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Dwarf Wedge Mussel
Moreover, declining mussel populations warn of dangerous levels of pollution and other ills in water systems. Damaged streams ... Pearlshell mussel have been found in the river system, attesting to the fact that only non-reproducing populations can survive under the present conditions. But, like the Dwarf wedge mussel, eventually ...
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Our Great Lakes - News Flash - Mussels-e
Great Lakes. There are ... reduction in the amount of food available native species. However, in near shore zones, where mussel populations dominate, nutrients may actually be trapped by the mussels, rather than moving out into deeper ...
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Harmful Aquatic Hitchhikers: Mollusks: Zebra Mussel
This behavior is known as bio-fouling and with the spread of zebra mussels, native mussel populations have been Worker removing zebra mussels from Detroit Edison water intake pipes. Photo by ... , biologists are concerned that populations of native mussels will decline, and perhaps some of the rarer species may be completely eliminated. Economic Impacts - The zebra mussel attaches to hard surfaces ...
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Branch of Invasive Species, U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service
And, as zebra mussel populations in an area increase, native mussels decrease; a strong indication that zebra mussels are the ...
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USFWS: Higgins eye pearlymussel fact sheet
Technology to control zebra mussel populations is under development, but no successful measures have been developed that could reliably limit zebra mussel colonization and not harm the native mussel ...
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Great Lakes United: Twenty Years of the Zebra Mussel
It is widely accepted that the zebra mussel arrived by hitchhiking a ride in or on ocean-vessels. Yet today, after spending hundreds of millions annually to control the mussel, we ... that the Rideau River-Rideau Canal system had to lose much of its rich native mussel populations before reaching this status simply because of our failure to properly control or prevent the ...
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Rideau Canal Waterway - The Pest Page
The long term effects of this on fish and other aquatic populations is unknown. Zebra mussels cannot be stopped, but their rate ... of zebra mussels. For information about Zebra mussel sightings along the Rideau visit the Zebra Mussel Sightings Page. For information about how ... Species and the Boater. For more information on the Zebra Mussel visit: Minnesota Sea Grant - Zebra Mussels Gypsy Moth The Gypsy ...
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