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Aquatic Nuisance Species Seem Unstoppable
July 13, 2010 -- By now you’ve heard that a young stage zebra mussel has been found in the Red River near Kidder Dam. That’s not good news.
Zebra mussels are a non-native species that likely got into this country by stowing away in the holding tanks of ships on the Great Lakes. The young, microscopic version of the zebra mussel, referred to as a veliger, was discovered during a routine plankton sampling operation at Kidder Dam.
The N.D. Game and Fish Department has been expecting them. In fact, at the last advisory board meeting, which was held in Wahpeton, district fisheries supervisor Gene Van Eeckhout, predicted the first zebra mussels to hit North Dakota would be found near Wahpeton-Breckenridge. Read the full story to get the details.
"We are disappointed, but not surprised that zebra mussels have entered the Red River," said Lynn Schlueter, Game and Fish aquatic nuisance species coordinator in a department news release. "The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources found them in the Red River watershed in the Pelican Lake chain well upstream of Wahpeton-Breckenridge last fall. And again this spring new mussel infestations were documented in Minnesota upstream of the Red River, including in Lake Lizzie."
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