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Article: Zebra stampede: as zebra mussels invade western waters, boaters must do their part to stop this destructive pest.
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- Trailer Boats
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- March 1, 2005
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While cosmic anxieties such as the Soviet Union, hippies and Martians have been suitably neutralized, one fiendish nightmare remains. It's a fingernail-sized mollusk called the zebra mussel. Brought to this country in ballast water from commercial ships in the late 1980s, these voracious filter feeders promise to wreak aquatic Armageddon on the known universe (and beyond, if it has water).
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As boaters, if we allow this freshwater scourge to continue its western march across the United States, we stand to lose the health of our waterways. As taxpayers, we stand to lose billions of dollars in controlling this destructive, ...