Zebra mussels plague region's waterways
Since the first zebra mussel larvae were sucked into the ballast tanks of a freighter on the Caspian Sea, then jumped ship into the Great Lakes in the 1980s, the small mollusk has wreaked havoc on the inland waters of the United States.
In Kosciusko County, the mussels have been discovered in 19 lakes, including Syracuse, Webster, Winona and Big Barbee. In LaGrange County, they are in nine lakes. In Allen County, they are in the St. Joseph River and the Cedarville Reservoir.
In 2010 the city of Fort Wayne was aware of the mussels. The city has intakes for the water system located in the reservoir and river. Mary Jane Slaton, spokeswoman for City Utilities, said so far the mussels have not caused a problem, although this fall they will be diving to check intake entrances.
The plankton-eating mollusks clear the water and reproduce quickly. One female can lay a million eggs in a single breeding season. The result has been the clogging of city water systems up and down the Great Lakes, and massive blooms of blue-green algae. High concentrations of certain species of blue-green algae can be toxic. Since their appearance in the Great Lakes, zebra mussels have spread all the way to California.
By wiping out plankton, mussels have affected the food chain enough that sport-fishing in the Great Lakes has dropped off as the smaller fish that rely on plankton for food have declined.
Author Jeff Alexander has documented this transformation of the Great Lakes in his book, “Pandora's Locks: The Opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway,” which traces the ecological disaster invasive species have caused since the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959.
The decline in game fish in the Great Lakes cannot be totally blamed on the zebra mussels or their bigger cousin, the quagga mussel. There have been other invasive species of fish, like the Eurasian ruffe and the tubenose and round goby. Sea lampreys first discovered in 1921 in Lake Erie began the destruction. By the 1950s the lampreys had decimated the lake trout fisheries in lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior. Northern Indiana lakes have yet to see any of these fish species, but the first zebra mussels appeared in Lake Wawasee in 1991.
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By the 1950s the lampreys had decimated the lake trout fisheries in lakes Michigan, Huron and Superior. Northern Indiana lakes have yet to see any of these fish species, but the first zebra mussels appeared in Lake Wawasee in 1991.
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Detectives are not releasing the names or ages of the juveniles, but did state that they were believed to be students in the Wawasee School System.
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