ZEBRA MUSSELS ARE NOW IN MANITOBA

Once our boat was pulled from the water at RMYC, it was discovered that we had a few Zebra mussels on our hull.  

 

 

They were so small that we didn't even notice them.  But someone else recognized them and we were contacted by Oceans and Fisheries and they interviewed us about where our boat had been recently.  Well it had never been out of this province or this waterway, so where did they come  from. 

 

They then proceeded to do inspections at both Boundary Creek Marina and Gimli Harbour and found Zebra mussels at both locations, under the docks and on some

boats.  These Zebra mussels appear to arrive on boats and trailers from infected waterways, so they could have been brought in on an imported boat.  Or up the Red River, because they have already been reported in North Dakota.  But how long ago?  How long have they been here?  How well established are they?  I guess that, is yet to be determined. 

 

 

IT'S TO BAD THAT THIS MENACE HAS MADE IT TO OUR WATERWAYS