Picture yourself time-traveling back to the golden age of bathtub gin, Detroit jazz and all the sophistication and decadence of Prohibition-era. Only it’s present day. On Lake Michigan. Your boat depth gauge reads 30-ft and the water is gin-clear.
Some how your favorite lake has changed from a hot spot for sport fishing, to a Cotton Club for Quagga Mussels. What the heck?
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| Coming to a Lake near you! |
And did we mention Ms Quagga welcomes your water vessels VIP admission?
GRAND RAPIDS, MAY 4, 2001- mlive.com- Anyone not convinced about the effects of messing with the Great Lakes ecosystem need only consider one little bivalve mollusk: the quagga mussel.
Introduced into the lakes through the ballast waters of transoceanic freighters, the dime-sized mussels are now estimated to top 950 trillion in Lake Michigan. That’s roughly 500 million pounds of the little creatures covering the bottom of the big lake. To read more
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