Dear Thom,

in several parts of Germany I've heard that Dreissena polymorpha is
growing up in lots and are destroying the good conditions for Anodontas
and other molluscs and fishes. So groups of young helpers and people
are cleaning the Anodontas from this terrible host and reput them into
the waters.
with best greetings
Helmut from Innsbruck


Helmut Nisters
Franz-Fischer-Str. 46
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone and fax: 0043 / 512 / 57 32 14
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
url: www.netwing.at/nisters/

or

Natural History Department of the
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck
malacological collection
Feldstr. 11a
A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria / Europe
phone: 0043 / 512 / 58 72 86-37

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At 06:11 PM 8/29/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I'm surprised no one has commented on the following AP article.  Or did I
>miss something?  Has anyone anything else to add?  This is the first I've
>heard about the goby.
>sj
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>
>Fish muscles in on
>destructive mussel.
>
>Goby may be answer to Lake Erie invasion
>

The exotic round goby does indeed relish zebra and quagga mussels. However,
it also is displacing native fishes such as darters and sculpins. In some
areas of the North American Great Lakes it has become unbelievably
abundant. The answer to one exotic is not another exotic.


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 Ohio Biological Survey &
 Aquatic Ecology Laboratory
 Ohio State University
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