Xref: utzoo sci.bio:5050 alt.great-lakes:838 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!uc!shamash!timbuk!deanb From: deanb@pecan10.cray.com (Dean Barker) Newsgroups: sci.bio,alt.great-lakes Subject: Re: zebra mussels spotted in Escanaba, MI Message-ID: <102424.29626@timbuk.cray.com> Date: 28 May 91 19:24:26 GMT References: <1991May28.140523.22980@cbnewsd.att.com> Sender: deanb@pecan10 (Dean Barker) Organization: Cray Research, Inc. Lines: 26 In article <1991May28.140523.22980@cbnewsd.att.com>, beckley@cbnewsd.att.com (Owen D. Beckley) writes: > From article , by emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti): > > > > zebra mussels are little critters that hitch-hiked their way in from > > Europe. > > > > A recent article in the Detroit Freep said they'd made it all the way > > up to Escanaba in northern Lake Michigan. > > The article you read is way behind the times. Zebra mussels hit Chicago > last summer! I have a friend who's company does underwater inspections > and construction. He found them last summer in one of the steel mills > south of Chicago. Yes, the zebra mussels have also reached the Duluth/Superior harbor which is on the western most tip of Lake Superior. So I would say it is a great lakes wide problem now. Dean -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Dean Barker Cray Research, Inc. deanb@cray.com 655F Lone Oak Drive (612) 683-5414 Eagan, MN 55121