Your MN AIS Tax $$ at Work

sticker wrote:

Holy balls, you guys must be really bored

I can’t believe I read this whole thread

who’s bored?????????

basseyes wrote:

My bad, I’m mentally specially challenged or whatever the correct term is for having a moment of special stupidity. Or my motor in my brains timing was rah tard ed.I am fairly new to me me’s and I mott oh con’s.

I am the same way brother!

In fact when I am texting BK I usually need him to explain thing literally. then again, it is BK.

sticker wrote:

Holy balls, you guys must be really bored

I can’t believe I read this whole thread

Yes, it’s become like the Seinfeld Show. Basically turned into a thread about nothing.

sticker wrote:

Holy balls, you guys must be really bored

I can’t believe I read this whole thread

Hahaha I was just thinkin the same thing.

I figured I better check in and see what all the posting is about. I stopped following it after my last post.

I felt compelled to make a confession. At the risk of self-incriminating myself I felt the need to tell a recent experience with an AIS “inspector”.
In mid June I was in Canada on LOW for a week. So after a week of fishing with walleye slime, blood, potato chips and crawler guts all ground into the carpet by the time I got home my boat really smelled!
I went to the carwash and proceeded to thoroughly wash the boat inside and out even using soap on the carpet sparingly because I know what kind of mess that creates if you don’t get it all out. Mind you, the plug has been out of the boat the ENTIRE time just like its supposed to.
I arrived back home, jacked it up and had it drying in the sun all day.
Fast forward several days I took the whole family out on the lake. When I backed up to the boat ramp and was taking the straps off the back and putting the plug in I noticed a TON of brown water coming out the drain plug and running down the access. I was wondering where all that dang water came from for a moment. Its always in my garage. Plus is out all the time, how did it get there? Then it dawned on me, clearly the carwash. As I stood there watching in drain the AIS inspector kid walked over with his script of questions. Not saying a word about the water being expelled from my boat. I knew where the water came from, I knew it was hot from the carwash so in the event any critters were in there it would have killed it, but he didn’t.
I guess I am glad there is someone there to watch for the obvious stuff, but there are so many circumstances that these kids couldn’t have been trained on in their couple hour online training which is what is likely the case before they start this job.

At best the folks at AIS Control will tell us the system isn’t perfect but it’s better then doing nothing.

There is disagreement on that.

Agreed. I have yet to see them check any waterfowl that went from water body to water body asking those questions…

ClownColor wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
Agreed. I have yet to see them check any waterfowl that went from water body to water body asking those questions…

Last year someone had asked all waterfowl hunters to check and report back if they spitted any zebs on their kills… There wasn’t one post! LOL. Not to say it can’t happen… But I’m guessing boats have spread 99% of it.

I’ve never spotted a zeeb on my boat, in the water in my boat, nor the weeds on my boat but I still have to clean them off…

“on” their kills or “in” their kills? I have seen photos from multiple sources with diver ducks that had eaten zebra mussels. Stomachs were full of them.
How do you suppose people get random berry plants growing where they never used to be? Some bird at the berry some place else, then crapped on your yard expelling the seeds.
I would guess boats have spread the majority of it too, but even if we are the most vigilant at the rules, there is always a pretty good likelihood that those pesky things will arrive there through “natural” means, it may just take longer.

CaptainMusky wrote:

“on” their kills or “in” their kills? I have seen photos from multiple sources with diver ducks that had eaten zebra mussels. Stomachs were full of them.
How do you suppose people get random berry plants growing where they never used to be? Some bird at the berry some place else, then crapped on your yard expelling the seeds.
I would guess boats have spread the majority of it too, but even if we are the most vigilant at the rules, there is always a pretty good likelihood that those pesky things will arrive there through “natural” means, it may just take longer.

So why not do what we can control to help stop the spread and clean the dang weeds off our trailer and boat and drain the water. It’s not too tough. Those opposed to the laws can beotch and moan and they want, but in the end its just plain laziness not to follow the simple laws.

Oh, and starting Sept24th, I’ll do my best to help stop the spread of AIS by shooting as many of those rampant avian violators as I can.

ClownColor wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>CaptainMusky wrote:</div>
Agreed. I have yet to see them check any waterfowl that went from water body to water body asking those questions…

Last year someone had asked all waterfowl hunters to check and report back if they spitted any zebs on their kills… There wasn’t one post! LOL. Not to say it can’t happen… But I’m guessing boats have spread 99% of it.

Villagers.
They are Smaller than those little green algae we see all over the ducks we shoot.

I’ll add in that 99℅ transferred to the REGION by ship ballast.

Within the REGION boats spread it.

Anyone look inside the ballasts of ski boats

I don’t think ducks etc are competing with man for who’s spreading more within a region.

I also don’t think any of us could successfully spread something if it isn’t first brought to the REGION via commerce either.

You can put a thread up asking how many people have boats that leak too…(you know, the ones that transfer water even after pulling a plug) But not many are willing to bring a heightened awareness to an area currently in the dark by our law makers.

but in the end its just plain laziness not to follow the simple laws.

Pretty big paint brush. IMHO

blank wrote:

So why not do what we can control to help stop the spread and clean the dang weeds off our trailer and boat and drain the water. It’s not too tough. Those opposed to the laws can beotch and moan and they want, but in the end its just plain laziness not to follow the simple laws.

Oh, and starting Sept24th, I’ll do my best to help stop the spread of AIS by shooting as many of those rampant avian violators as I can.

Because the rules will not stop the spread. The rules slow the spread. There is a difference. As I pointed out on the last page. Given enough time, AIS is inevitable, because all we are doing is slowing the spread, and making criminals out of boaters in the process.

Does it really make sense to turn boaters into criminals over something that will not be stopped?

The only way to stop the spread is to ban all access to waters that do not have AIS, or vice versa, ban all access to waters that already have AIS.

Put my boat on the trailer Sunday and found a weed hanging out from either side of a roller. I broke off and discarded what I could. Wherever I launch next is going to get that weed. Imagine the square yards (acres?) of carpet on bunk trailers out there transferring things every day.

It’s just feel good legislation that will not change the inevitable and creates a summer jobs program.

I guess we can agree to disagree because I don’t have the pessimistic attitude in thinking that AIS in all waters is inevitable. But even if it really is inevitable, maybe someday there will become some sort of remedy to kill the AIS before the inevitable happens, so if we can slow the spread that will just reduce the number of lakes that would need treatment to kill them.

Speaking of remedies….today from the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center.

MAISRC wants to hear your research ideas

MAISRC is conducting its biennial Research Needs Assessment and wants your input. Please share with us your thoughts on the most pressing research needs for preventing or controlling the spread of aquatic invasive species in Minnesota via this online survey.MAISRC focuses research efforts on species that are most likely to be in Minnesota, cause significant damage, and for which there are key uncertainties that impede understanding risks or developing effective prevention or management/control programs.

This process includes input from scientists, stakeholders, and AIS managers. All responses received by September 14 will be considered during the Center’s 2016 Research Needs Assessment. Thank you for your time!

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