Another AIS Solution Offered. What a shock…..

http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentaries/165193886.html?refer=y

The author sounds like a first class jerk. Now I remember why I dont buy that paper.

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and of course the author lives where else but in the posh western half of Hennepin county

I’m beginning to suspect that there’s something in the drinking water out there which is more pernicious than zeebs or milfoil

Just curious.. if mille lacs is sooo bad with zeebs, why is it such good fishing this year?

AWESOME!!!!!More deep thoughts and application of the science associated with the spread of AIS.

I like it when the inspector, at Lake Harriet, tells me that they are trying to prevent Milfoil from entering the lake. 10 feet away from this guy is a conveyor and milfoil cutter tethered to the bouy….

Of course, he is just “picking up some hours” and that is why he took the job.

It is a beautiful world that we live in.

The author of that nonsensical tripe should have a BS decontamination station parked outside his head to prevent his stupid ideas from contaminating the rest of the population.

Much like our current AIS fight, it looks like it’s already too late.

Some good comments mixed in with the startrib article, here is one I liked:

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myob_ST
Aug. 6, 12
9:55 PM
There were zebra mussels in Mills Lacs in the mid-90’s. Who travels from lake to lake the most? Hint: it rhymes with “tournament fishermen.” Those who fish the tournament circuits haul their boats from lake to lake, state to state, with barely time enough to come home and do their laundry, let alone get every drop of water out of the boat and clean off every piece of water weed. I say we put in toll booths at boat landings (it’s a fee, not a tax, people) that must be self-funding. Make it through the inspection clean, you get in for free. Fail the inspection and you pay big. Now THAT might make people do the necessary inspections. It ain’t the good ole days, folks, and we cannot pretend that fishing this week on Erie and next week on Mille Lacs doesn’t have its risks.

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I would have to agree with him on the tournament fisherman. Especially after hearing from some of them even on this forum saying that they hadn’t pulled their plug in years.
Not saying every tournament guy is this way but these guys are high risk.

Have tournament organizers and promoters tried to address this or have they already?

Pot stirrer!! ^^^^

We are all dumber for having read that.

More good comments:

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rle1962
Aug. 7, 12
5:18 AM
Another invasive specie we should rid the lake of are the property owners. Keeping that well manicured lawn has turned lakes into green slimy cesspools. But yes it’s your right cause you own land and pay the high taxes! Also, each of you has the right to a beautiful sandy beach, after all you pay the big taxes for that property. You are as much of a problem as the zebra mussel to our pristine lakes!

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Nice try Dave. Until we have proof that migrating waterfowl don’t transmit larvae from invasive species, how are you going to restrict them form flying from lake to lake?

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kleindropper
Aug. 7, 12
7:46 AM
Does the ban include ducks and geese?

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fish60
Aug. 7, 12
8:28 AM
Had the DNR quarantined the first lake or first few lakes to become infested with zebra mussels this could have been prevented.

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macretsam
Aug. 7, 12
9:34 AM
Thanks to zebra mussels Lake Minnetonka has the best water clarity I’ve seen in 20 years. Doesn’t stink like it used to either.

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okbruce
Aug. 7, 12
9:48 AM
Talk about cutting off the leg to cure a hangnail. Zebra mussels aren’t going away. This is a battle we will not win. Every time man has tried to adjust something in nature, he invariably ends up making it worse. Case in point, in 2009 Australia wiped out the feral cats on one of their islands, only to watch the island begin to erode as the rabbit population exploded and the tunneling and devegetation loosened all the soil. Zebra mussels are here and they’re not leaving. Nature will adjust if we let it.

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Pot stirrer!! ^^^^

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Some good comments mixed in with the startrib article, here is one I liked:

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myob_ST
Aug. 6, 12

9:55 PM
There were zebra mussels in Mills Lacs in the mid-90’s. Who travels from lake to lake the most? Hint: it rhymes with “tournament fishermen.” Those who fish the tournament circuits haul their boats from lake to lake, state to state, with barely time enough to come home and do their laundry, let alone get every drop of water out of the boat and clean off every piece of water weed. I say we put in toll booths at boat landings (it’s a fee, not a tax, people) that must be self-funding. Make it through the inspection clean, you get in for free. Fail the inspection and you pay big. Now THAT might make people do the necessary inspections. It ain’t the good ole days, folks, and we cannot pretend that fishing this week on Erie and next week on Mille Lacs doesn’t have its risks.

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I would have to agree with him on the tournament fisherman. Especially after hearing from some of them even on this forum saying that they hadn’t pulled their plug in years.
Not saying every tournament guy is this way but these guys are high risk.

Have tournament organizers and promoters tried to address this or have they already?

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yeah, cuz it’s only the tournament anglers who don’t pull their plugs

“Find a mussel, pick it up, all day long, you’ll have good luck.”

It won’t load for me either. Its probably a good thing, since I just ate.

Read it. What a D-Bag. This is going to get more heated than the netting debate.

Googled info. about the Author:

{Copyright to Decorah News.com}
Link to Decorah News, David Bellert

Here’s the listing from DEX:
Listing for David Bellert
Photo and info for the author

Thanks Google and our Internet world to find information a few tidbits in less than 10-minutes.

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Dumb, dumb, dumb ask your self on any given day how many ducks, geese, sea gull’s, crows etc. travel from one lake to another. THEY ALL TRANSPORT ON THERE BODY’S AND IN THERE FEATHER’S. MILFOIL AND LARVA FROM ZEBRA MUSCLES. So get over it folk’s there here and no gate or inspection is gonna do any good just a wast of tax dollar’s IT’S TOO LATE THERE HERE AND HEAR FOR GOOD!

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I love the Strib comments section. I get what he’s trying to say, but come on…apparently reading the newspaper doesn’t help an individual use any type of proper grammar!

Speaking as a expert…grammar is the last thing we should be worried about!

unless, of course, she’s transporting AIS in the ruffles of that old “bloomers style” swimming suit

It’s a fee, not a tax…uh huh…where have we heard that before??

Al

today’s new release from western Hennepin county

It’s 4:40 on Tuesday 8-7-12 and their talking about this on Joe Souchary right now….

Just drove by Nokomis and they had the chains up, I guess if your a working stiff you don’t deserve to be able to use the lake after work.

It is indeed time for the revolution.

Al

Did you notice the website with the “picture” of the guy is from Australia? Nice work detective.

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Googled info. about the Author:

{Copyright to Decorah News.com}
Link to Decorah News, David Bellert

Here’s the listing from DEX:
Listing for David Bellert
Photo and info for the author

Thanks Google and our Internet world to find information a few tidbits in less than 10-minutes.

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Is there any chance of finding a good use for them? Buttons like the clams were? Localize a cultured pearl industry. Thier outside coloring is fancyier then a clams is, whats the inside coloring look like. Down south sea shells, oyster shells, are used as a filler in concrete instead of grey limestone, because there isn’t any along the gulf coast. Could an industry be built from the zeb’s. Don’t they have to be full of calcium. Just wondering.

Just thought of a use; grind them to a powder and use it for grout that sparkles for tileing, use clear base instead of a colored powder base. Use them for a powdered filler that you mix in a clear coat after a paintjob, makes the paint sparkle, mix the powder in the final clearcoat on fishing poles, heck theres probably many good uses for them.

They did find a use for them. There used to start a AIS crisis in mn. Millions of dollars will be spent and not even one zeb will need to be harvested. Talk about a renewable resource.