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Potato Brush the Latest Tool to Fight Invasive Species
May 20, 2010 -- Oregon's latest weapon in the war against aquatic invasive species is low-tech but effective.
"Just buy a $1 potato scrub brush for your fishing vest, and when you get done fishing, just scrub off the felt soles real quick," said Rick Boatner, the Invasive Species Program coordinator with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
That will take the mud off your felt-soled waders or boots along with parasites such as whirling disease, pieces of noxious water weeds and one of Oregon's imported invasive species, the New Zealand mudsnail. Read the full story to get the details.
"That's going to prevent most things from moving on like New Zealand mudsnails, because they like to get in those little grooves," Boatner said. "And then the whirling disease, just clean the mud off and you're not going to move that spore around.
"So just a couple of minutes before you leave the stream."
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The Stop Aquatic Hitchhikers web site is part of the ANS Task Force public
awareness campaign and is sponsored by the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and the U.S. Coast Guard.
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