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Posts: 676 Location: Wisconsin | Looks promising, and one of their tests will be on Shawano. Let's hope this works. http://wobegonmuck.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-new-weapon-in-war-on-zebra-mussels.html
Appears they have a 90% or greater mortality rate http://marronebioinnovations.com/products/zequanox/ Edited by Muskiemetal 8/21/2012 7:39 AM | ||
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Posts: 16632 Location: The desert | This stuff is pretty cool BUT Did you read the whole article? There is this tid bit: "Denise Mayer, one of the researchers on the project, stresses that zequanox is not likely to be used on whole lakes- rather, the likely approach "is to use it as a tool to prevent infestations very early on if you find a localized infestation around a boat launch or marina or a dock,"and in this way prevent the further infestation of the lake." While this is a good advancement it isn't a cure. 10% of 1M is still 100K. Plus, you have to look at where they are getting their 90% mortality rates..... Not to mention the cost of this product is going to be pretty hefty. Can you imagine getting enough to completely treat Shawano lake? A $5-10 fishing license increase is generally scoffed at by many here, I doubt selling them a much higher increase to treat one lake won't go over well. | ||
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Posts: 20248 Location: oswego, il | They seem pretty sure that this microbe will not harm anything but the zebra mussel, hope it is true but that can't be the only living creatures that will ingest it. | ||
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Posts: 68 | maybe some mad scientist can find the remedy for the Asian Carp now ![]() | ||
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Posts: 676 Location: Wisconsin | It's a start Pointer, always with these negative waves man... | ||
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Posts: 437 | Negative? I would say more of a realist. When was the last time you ever heard of a non-native species being brought in to specifically control something else not having negative impacts? Or impacts not found in their initial studies? Asian beetles? Japanese beetles were both introduced to get rid of crop infestations and look what they have now? No natural predator and they are thick as heck. Asian beetles push out the "lady bugs". I think it makes complete sense to remain cautiously optimistic about this. | ||
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Posts: 16632 Location: The desert | Muskiemetal - 8/21/2012 12:09 PM It's a start Pointer, always with these negative waves man... Not negative at all. Just honest. It is a start, a start that has been 20 years running now. This isn't anything new. They have been working on this stuff for years. It has shown to kill mussels. But you have to look at how they are doing the study. Gathering mussels and submersing them in a bath of the bacteria to "simulate" treating a lake. I'm sure it will kill most of them. We pretty much already know that this stuff kills them. Why not do a case study and treat a whole lake? I bet cost plays a roll ![]() Can you imagine the accessibility to a treated water if we ever get to that point, assuming the other lakes aren't treated at the same time (see: cost). If you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars treating a lake, do you think they are going to want boaters to have free access anytime they want? I doubt it. That would be foolish. Prevention is a much better, more cost efficient plan. | ||
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Posts: 267 Location: Right behind you (tap, tap) BOOO | When I was launching Saturday afternoon on a Metro Lake the Inspector at the launch was telling me that the MN DNR was running a pilot over the weekend and tracking results over the next month on Lake Pepin (Mississippi River @ Lake City). He said there was a lot of excitement surrounding this pilot. He told me it's called Zequnox (sp?) and a derived from a bacteria found in dirt that is poisonous to the zebes, it is applied in the form of a powder and that it takes a very small amount to treat a 2000 acre body of water. (I haven't had a chance to read the links above so don't burn me as I am repeating what I told. Granted this guy was just an inspector but he seemed familiar with the treatment.) http://www.twincities.com/sports/ci_21338316/zebra-mussel-killer-te... Edited by esox23 8/21/2012 2:29 PM | ||
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Posts: 676 Location: Wisconsin | Pointer, it was a joke. (Kelly's Heros). | ||
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Posts: 16632 Location: The desert | Muskiemetal - 8/21/2012 7:17 PM Pointer, it was a joke. (Kelly's Heros). I'm not old enough for such a joke! Though I have seen the movie.... I will put batteries in the joke meter, clearly mine was broken today! | ||
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Posts: 4266 | I think that they should saturate the upper stretches of The Mississippi River to stop them from invading every lake and stream connected to the river. Every lake that is somehow connected to the river is bound to get infested. You should see them with the water level low. Also.....I worked at the Water Utility where I live for 15 years, and back then the Fire Dept. would dive down to the mouths of our intake pipes that are 3 and 2 miles out in Lake Michigan. They can swim in the pipes and carry big bags of powdered chlorine and hyperchloranate as much of the pipe as they can. It slowed them down to what is now the constant level, but that level is maintained with two hyperchlorinating doses. You might be able to eradicate them in areas, but it would take a year-round effort to stop them because of the reproduction rate. As far as Asian Carp, I think that it should be legal to carry a shotgun year-round and shoot the bastards. I would like to see Asian Carp Shoot-em Ups and keep score. Let the turtles and catfish eat the remains. Steel shot of course. Edited by Beaver 8/21/2012 9:23 PM | ||
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Posts: 1086 | The chemical known as Sonar wiped out all of the Zebra mussels in Webster Lake in Indiana for the past two years. Granted, the side affect to that is that it took all of the weeds in the lake with it. (No...I'm not starting a debate on Webster's water quality and that old tired topic....I'm just simply stating what the Sonar chemical did for Webster's Zebra Mussle population. Everything has it's Causes & Effects, Pros & Cons....trade offs, etc if you will...) | ||
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