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A SCUBA diver holds a rock covered in quagga mussels on Lake Michigan in 2017. Inspectors are finding a rash of boats carrying invasive species into Montana, though the boating season’s busiest stretch is yet to come. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has intercepted 21 boats with invasive zebra or quagga mussels this season, compared to eight at this time last year. “So we’re way above and beyond what we saw last season at this time,” said Tom Woolf, Aquatic Invasive Species Program Director. Woolf says there’s also been an increase in overall boat traffic, with most infested ones ...

A new tool to kill the water killers By Buckmasters Online Revolutionary new method joins the fight against invasive mussels. For almost three decades now, conservationists in states with massive lake and river water resources have lost the battle against two invasive mussels—the quagga and the zebra. Since spring arrived and recreational boaters and water users are putting their boats into the water, Utah is bringing an important new weapon to the fight May 1. The new system will lead the way in the massive fight against the water-killing mussels. The zebra mussel first arrived in the Gre...

Three mussel-fouled boats found at Anaconda Station Latest in string of fouled boats found entering the state   Staff and wire report Anaconda watercraft inspectors were busy last weekend when three mussel-fouled watercraft were intercepted at the inspection station. The inspectors keep finding more fouled boats, with the previous weekend, on April 10, marking Montana’s watercraft inspectors intercepting the sixth mussel-fouled boat entering the state. That boat also was stopped at the Anaconda watercraft.   Inspectors found dry and dead mussels on a used pontoon boat that had been p...

Discovery of invasive mussels keep Montana’s boat inspections busy MTN News file and last updated 2021-04-21 16:47:43-04 MISSOULA — Only a few weeks into the season, Montana check stations have already stopped about 10 boats with invasive mussels attached. It’s going to be another busy summer, and more people may be passing through at night bringing invasive species with them. On Saturday, Fish, Wildlife & Parks watercraft inspectors at the Anaconda station were busy checking all the boats being towed along Interstate 90 when a large sailboat came in. It had come from Lake Mich...

Invasive species are hitchhiking on boats coming into Montana.