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- From: andrewt@watson.ibm.com (Andrew Taylor)
- Subject: Re: Climatic Change and Mussel shells
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:20:11 GMT
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- In article <JMC.93Jan25212745@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >Alas, collecting freshwater mussels from around the world is
- >an extremely bad idea. In fact it is illegal. We just had
- >a major infestation of European freshwater mussels into the
- >great lakes, clogging power plant cooling intakes, etc.
-
- The request is I'm sure for shells, not live mussels, they even specified
- non-endangered. "Had" is not the correct tense for zebra mussel
- infestation is still expanding. Its has now spread down the Hudson almost as
- far as NY city and will likely soon be transferred into NY's reservoir system
- where it will no doubt cause further expensive problems.
-
- The zebra mussel infestation is a good example of why I think that economic
- considerations alone justify much more effort to prevent species introductions.
- For example, measures should be taken to stop organisms being transferred in
- ship's ballast water such as sterilisation or perhaps complete flushing
- mid-ocean would be adequate (if possible).
-
- Andrew Taylor
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