Mussels and Their Impacts to the Great Lakes

[Ryno]

Some year's back, the round Golby was also illegally introduced to the Great Lakes. In it's native range it will actually consume zebra/quagga mussels. Unfortunately in the Great Lakes, it prefers to eat young smallmouth bass and perch. That's the concern with introducing another species or predator. All the research may show they'll consume the over-populated species, but every ecosystem is different, you never know exactly how they'll respond and/or what they'll look for when the forage runs out.

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