Officials work to contain ‘limited infestation’ of zebra mussels at Manitoba’s Clear Lake

Officials opportunity they’re taking measures to incorporate nan area aft grounds of zebra mussels was recovered successful Clear Lake.

According to Parks Canada, an big zebra mussel was recovered Wednesday adjacent Boat Cove, successful Manitoba’s Riding Mountain National Park, during a ocular study of nan area.

Snorkellers recovered an adult-sized, surviving zebra mussel attached to a rock, arsenic good arsenic a partial shell. This comes connected nan heels of news past period that h2o samples collected from Boat Cove betwixt June 19 and 27 tested affirmative for biology DNA from zebra mussels.

Winnipeg MP Terry Duguid, parliamentary caput to nan premier curate and typical advisor for water, told 680 CJOB’s The Start that steps are being taken to mitigate immoderate outbreak.

“There is simply a constricted infestation astatine this time, we believe,” Duguid said.

“Parks Canada is going to beryllium taking measures to incorporate that infestation truthful that hopefully we tin person a patient and ecologically intact reservoir going forward.”

Among nan steps that will beryllium taken: an impermeable containment curtain, group to get adjacent week, that will isolate nan area wherever nan unrecorded mussel was recovered from nan remainder of nan lake.

“It’s fundamentally an underwater obstruction to forestall nan travel of water,” Duguid said. “The zebra mussels nutrient 1 cardinal babies, truthful to speak, per year, truthful this is to forestall nan larvae from being transmitted to different portions of nan lake.”

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The Boat Cove area is besides group to beryllium closed to nan nationalist during nan installation of nan curtain, but erstwhile it’s installed, it’s not expected to impact nan lake’s circuit boat, aliases people’s expertise to bask swimming aliases fishing.

Parks Canada said it’s besides mulling nan usage of potash successful an effort to eliminate immoderate mussels, but that will dangle connected further ocular surveys, arsenic good arsenic testing h2o from different regions of nan lake.