07-05-2010, 09:29 PM
Wow...touchy subject for a few like I thought it would be like it is in this state.
All I know is Mussels are mostly transported by birds like a few have pointed out as well as flooding, irrigation ditches etc..etc...Some one go tell my relatives in Michigan and Minnesota, and Wisconsin that the mussels didn't improve the habitat in every place they have been. They peaked-filtered-cleaned up the water and-died and the ecosystem flourished like no other again. They compare it to the burning of Yellowstone. It was down right
and ugly when it hit but start another 100 year cycle of regeneration and healthy growth. They don't check for them up there because they don't care. They cycle like everything else in nature. Every once in a while something needs to be cleaned.
As far as equipment being damaged I'm sure everyone has been looking at the same shopping cart/pipe/ and lower unit as the rest of the world has been for the past 5 years. Leave it in one place long enough that's what happens.
Reminds me the CWD (chronic wasting disease) boogyman we spent billions on. Someone show me one person in the world that has gotten sick or died from CWD. That stuff has been here before Columbus. We just had the technology to even know what it was and/or detect it 20 years ago. Until then I'll keep sprinkling it on my cornflakes.
Sorry I got the trout guys undies in a bunch thou...every state seems to have their one or two "natives" then they all become native when you say it long enough I guess.
Just hope your State doesn't try to make the same one's this one does and try to keep trout thriving in warm water reservoirs for them to die of heat in the summer. Let's keep the cold water fish in cold water and warm water fish in warm water and move on and keep trying to pull one over natures eyes and play God [cool].
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All I know is Mussels are mostly transported by birds like a few have pointed out as well as flooding, irrigation ditches etc..etc...Some one go tell my relatives in Michigan and Minnesota, and Wisconsin that the mussels didn't improve the habitat in every place they have been. They peaked-filtered-cleaned up the water and-died and the ecosystem flourished like no other again. They compare it to the burning of Yellowstone. It was down right
and ugly when it hit but start another 100 year cycle of regeneration and healthy growth. They don't check for them up there because they don't care. They cycle like everything else in nature. Every once in a while something needs to be cleaned.As far as equipment being damaged I'm sure everyone has been looking at the same shopping cart/pipe/ and lower unit as the rest of the world has been for the past 5 years. Leave it in one place long enough that's what happens.
Reminds me the CWD (chronic wasting disease) boogyman we spent billions on. Someone show me one person in the world that has gotten sick or died from CWD. That stuff has been here before Columbus. We just had the technology to even know what it was and/or detect it 20 years ago. Until then I'll keep sprinkling it on my cornflakes.
Sorry I got the trout guys undies in a bunch thou...every state seems to have their one or two "natives" then they all become native when you say it long enough I guess.
Just hope your State doesn't try to make the same one's this one does and try to keep trout thriving in warm water reservoirs for them to die of heat in the summer. Let's keep the cold water fish in cold water and warm water fish in warm water and move on and keep trying to pull one over natures eyes and play God [cool].
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