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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 263014" data-attributes="member: 1305">Having just spent the last couple hours reading any research paper I could find trying to get a handle on what sort of affect zebra muscles can have on a fluid system like a high nutrient load Reservoir like we have out here. The one thing I keep coming across over and over again is roughly what you just posted that they have a huge effect on a lot of things but the Fisheries tend not to be one of them. For instance Lake Erie 10 of the 11 species studied in the lake before and after the arrival of the muscles had no change whatsoever in the number of their age 0 class fish at the end of the year with the 11'th one having an increase and this would be of course as you mentioned yellow perch. So needless to say this may not be good for people's knees and feet while they're swimming boat docks water intakes and such the end of the world for fishing it is not except for its hell on fishing line.  Oh and for those asking about the bullheads they apparently do better with zebra mussels because they actually feed on them.- - - Updated - - -Yeah well they also don't have a resident population of a couple million Ducks God knows how many cormorants literally the largest breeding population of pelicans in North America which number well into the tens of thousands herons egrets and God knows how many shore birds. All living in the giant Prairie pothole region that are constantly moving anything and everything around. You think a few small boats are the biggest problem tell me how all the aquatic weeds and organisms got into all of these cutoff potholes that are not connected to anything and no one has ever looked at them with a boat. Give you a hint how they got there and they didn't have propellers they had wings!</blockquote>

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