As a point of interest regarding milfoil invasion. For the last 25 years we have a small cabin on a small lake here in NY. The center of the lake is quite deep while all around the edges the milfoil used to rage. At first there was an association that hired someone to remove the milfoil by the truck load with a special harvesting contraption. When that seemed futile and too costly, no one did anything anymore. We built a raft and ripped a path with rakes to get to the deeper water to go swimming. Approx. 10 - 12 years ago the N.Y.State DEC decided to make our lake an experiment. They took European Grass Carp sterilized them and released them in the lake. The first year I personally did not see any difference, although the DEC deemed the experiment a success. They stated that the number of carps were not sufficient and decided to release more of them. Within 2 years, the lake was totally cleared of milfoil and is still clear today. I have not read anything more about this but I suspect either the cost of releasing these fish, or the difficulty in obtaining them, or some other problem, is the reason that they have not been used elsewhere. On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:45 PM, PaddleWise < owner-paddlewise_at_paddlewise.net> wrote: > The lake in front of my house is going to be undergoing a > disinfection program this summer in what seems like a continual attack on > milfoil. All the previous programs have failed miserably. I'm sure no one > thinks that it can be eradicated now; all they hope to do is keep it > more-or-less under control. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 19 2011 - 08:40:15 PDT
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