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| Looks like you stirred up a hornets nest. Complain all you want here but this isn't where the powers that be are listening/reading to keep up with voters veiws. |
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| Moltisanti - 6/18/2013 11:30 AM
Here is another hijack of the thread...
Pointer, why is the St. Croix River and Lake Huron now devoid of zebra mussels? As an AIS professional, that has to be big news.
5 years ago, you couldn't pull a stick out of the water anywhere between Stillwater and Prescott that didn't have 10,000 zebras attached to it. And now they're basically gone.
http://www.startribune.com/local/east/146207365.html
I had the same thought! So I started an AIS thread to yack about it. |
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| joshb - 6/18/2013 11:17 AM
3. Create some kind of an application/permit system that allows you to fish after dark. In order to get the application you need to complete an online invasive species training. If your boat gets ticketed for not removing weeds then fines/penalties are steeper because you should know better.
I like this too. All the ideas you've listed are good, but this one seems the most feasible to me. I don't know how you'd prevent non-permitted boats from leaving without some sort of automated gate, but I think it's an idea in the right direction. |
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Location: MN | Does anyone know how they are keeping all the birds and other critters out between 10 and 6? |
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| How many people in here have actually been to a Minneapolis city lake and saw how things unfold in the summer????
Thinking that keeping people off the lake at night that this will control most exotics from entering or leaving the city lakes is a joke,,,,at least 50 percent of the watercraft that enter the lake never goes through the ramp,,,Canoes,Kayaks and clubs that navigate rivers with exotics, carry in sailboats with keels that are so crusty you could extract the goo and use it for a biological weapon,folding boats,all go in and out all summer long and never get checked they just launch on shore, Minneapolis history with their lakes is full of bad decisions regulations,,,how many remember having to get two different permits for their trolling motors and boats and they wernt even the same years when they would be due,,,how did that make any sense or "what did that prevent",,, Preserve water quality???how bout removing the building material that got dumped into the bottom of some of these lakes when the new bandstand was built And Im still waiting for somebody to tell me WHY the sailboaters use outboard motors when outboard motors are banned on city lakes????,,,Has anybody followed the dump truck that harvests milfoil from the lake Im betting that would be a fun youtube when you see that some IS bouncing out all the way down the road.
also dont be under the impression that you CAN stay out on these lakes all night if your willing to be launched by 10pm and out after 6am,,Minneapolis current position regarding that is "That the city of MPL,s does not encourage and will prevent that behavior" and that was has of yesterday 6-17
its is only a matter of time before tonka jumps on the bandwagon
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Location: The desert | Nershi - 6/18/2013 1:33 PM
Does anyone know how they are keeping all the birds and other critters out between 10 and 6?
The risk associated with these is so low it's hardly worth worrying about. |
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Location: deephaven mn | jonnysled - 6/18/2013 11:20 AM
joshb - 6/18/2013 11:17 AM
3. Create some kind of an application/permit system that allows you to fish after dark. In order to get the application you need to complete an online invasive species training. If your boat gets ticketed for not removing weeds then fines/penalties are steeper because you should know better.
All I have time for right now.
I like this one ...
i think this is a good idea as well
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| Just pulled my boat out a couple of hours ago from Calhoun and inspector looked under the right wheelwell and said "looks good". Had she looked at the left side she would have found some fresh, green milfoil hanging.
There was milfoil hanging and quite a bit of green algae/goop junk on my trailer I hadn't seen before. Anyone know what that is? Seemed to be a lot on the surface of Calhoun tonight.
Sorry if this has been asked already but how much would a wash station cost?
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Location: Hudson,WI | jonnysled - 6/18/2013 11:20 AM
joshb - 6/18/2013 11:17 AM
3. Create some kind of an application/permit system that allows you to fish after dark. In order to get the application you need to complete an online invasive species training. If your boat gets ticketed for not removing weeds then fines/penalties are steeper because you should know better.
All I have time for right now.
I like this one ...
I do too, I could also be cool with the gate system you mentioned too. As long as we can have access to the lake, rather than an outright ban.
As far as zeebs dissapeasing from the croix, I was gonna call the BS card until I read the article, so thanks for citing some sources cause that's the first time I've heard that. One thing I heard a long time ago is that the only natural predator that zeebs have was the lowly sheeps head  |
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