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Soon, Illinois officials hope, folks will be noshing on copi sliders and cooking up copi tacos, eating into the invaders population.

Nate Weisenbeck’s 8-year-old self couldn’t be happier. Now at age 23, he’s headed to Florida to live out his dream as an intern in the field of marine biology. “From my earliest memories – the very first time anyone asked me – ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ I said, ‘marine biologist’,” said Weisenbeck. “As I got older it expanded to all animals and nature. I couldn’t do anything else.”

Ryan Wooten has just began his journey of fish, fishing, and fisheries; and it’s been an interesting start.

Whats the relationship between walleyes and zebra mussels? Its complicated Research shows that in some lakes the invasive species appeared to have a serious negative effect on walleyes because of increased water clarity. In other lakes, zebra mussels seem to have had little or no effect on walleye populations and size structure. 6:34 am, Mar. 7, 2021 × The effects of zebra mussels on walleyes is variable from lake to lake, a University of Minnesota researcher said. "Its c...