Serious Theat to Our Fisheries

[housatonic]

Take some time to open up this link and read the poster. If this stuff gets into our rivers we are toast. I have been to Tennessee twice and I can tell you that the Didymo was much worse the second time. Besides killing the micro-invertibrates by taking away all of their habitat it is right out disgusting to look at. You have to peel the cotton like substance off your hook all day. I know that they have found it in Hew Hampshire and Vermont. The weeds love to inhabit cool streams. Spread the word and maybe get some of the posters for fishing access. Prevention is the only way to stop this. So if you make people aware that it could happen, it might never happen at all.

http://www.epa.gov/region8/water/didymosphenia/International%20fact%20sheet.pdf

[Ghostrydr]

I noticed this information while fishing in Oregon last month. Hit the link to the PDF, then go to page 61 entitled "Stop Harmful Species".

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/resources/fishing/regulations_2007.pdf

It contains some good ideas about how to clean your boots and waders between fishing stops at different rivers to prevent spreading junk around.

Not a bad idea...