Category: Invasive species
Science: Goby Love Potions
Cool stuff going on in a research lab in Windsor, Ont. Check this statement out: “University of Windsor professors are narrowing down an elusive goby love potion that could lure the females of the invasive species to their deaths.” The article says the 4 magic compounds (11-oxo-etiocholanolone, for you science geeks) would be added to [...]
Crazy College Carp Caper
What does an NFL pass rush look like if you’re Eli Manning? (Go Giants!) Looks like what these crazy Illinois “yoots” found out in their quest to rid a river of some Asian carps. Don’t try this at home!
Locals Want Great Lakes Cut Off
Asian carp, the aqua-locusts. At this point, no one has a clue how to stop these things. Meaning really stop ‘em. They’ve been charging up the Mississippi River, and the massive bureaucracy that is the Army Corps of Engineers is studying whether to close the Chicago Sanitary and Ship canal, which connects the Mississippi to [...]
Boat Sterilization Not So Far-Fetched?
A while back we had a post titled Immunizing Your Boat: It’s Coming? Sounded a bit far-fetched at the time, but maybe not in light of a couple recent items in Washington and Minnesota. Washington Anglers in the state of Washington are subject to random boat checks
MS’s Barnett Another Spraying Victim?
We all know that the non-native, invasive water veggies clog up waterways so folks feel like they need to get rid of ‘em. We also all know that Water Veggies = Bass, and that No Water Veggies = No Bass (or a lot less, anyway). Tripped over a short article about Mississippi’s Ross Barnett Reservoir [...]
Is Guntersville Fixin’ to…Suck?
Guntersville is so good that you can throw a Vienna sausage on a J-hook, make one cast and catch an 8-pounder. Okay, maybe not that great, but that’s kind of it’s national rep. And it looks like some locals are now bent on trying to make that rep a thing of the past. Below is [...]
Lame Prizes in Snakehead Kill Effort
The Maryland DNR wants to give you a popsicle stick and an orange if you catch and kill a Potomac River snakehead and post its ugly mug online. Alright, not that lame, but it sure as heck isn’t the serious bucks doled out in the West to get rid of squawfish (aka pikeminnows). To entice [...]
Science: Alien Invader Update
Remember hearing the news about the coming end of the bassin’ world back in 2004? You know, all the green fish were going to be eaten, tourneys were going to be out of business, along with the guides. All that lost revenue, and jazz. It was the new alien invader, and it had landed smack dab in [...]
Beginning of End for Invasive Mussels?
Looks like scientists from the New York State Museum, of all places, have come up with a way to kill zebra and quagga mussels without harming anything else. From the Tahoe Daily Tribune: > Researchers Daniel Molloy and Denise Mayer discovered a bacteria strain — Pseudomonas fluorescens — that can kill zebra and quagga mussels [...]
Immunizing Your Boat: It’s Coming?
If you didn’t catch the buzz from a post by Lindner’s Angling Edge recently, Ron Lindner was fishing with fish biologist Dick Sternberg and…well, I’ll let Ron pick it up from here: In between hooking fish, Dick was on and off the cell phone all afternoon. I heard one side of the ongoing discussions…and they [...]
The Upside of Zebra Mussels?
With all the hue and cry about Asian carp and a few stories in the news recently about zebra mussels contributing to bird dieoffs in the Great Lakes, it’s probably not PC to talk about how “invasive species” can actually improve things here and there. Like: How about the improved water clarity and smallie fishing [...]
