Oh geez,no der Donnie, dat sounds like bahd news tah me! You betcha!

They also attach to waterfowl, so how do you then prevent spread to other lakes?

but its a secret lake, really who do you work for?

Pretty sure these are being tranported by animals (birds, moss back turles, ect) as well as man made items like boats, minnow buckets, etc. But nobody is talking about that.

Exactly as the rest of the comments suggested...there is no way to stop the spread of this invasive species through traditional methods of watercraft inspections unless they start using microscopes. The DNR needs to move on to other important things and we need to figure out how to live with them. Maybe someone will figure out a recipe for a great tasting stew!

You can be nice to the boaters and fisherman and ask them to clean their boats before unloading into a lake but unless you have mandatory cleaning station at each lake that they have to pay for boat/fishing licenses, nothing will ever help improve the situation.

"bdsdnfam: The DNR needs to move on to other important things and we need to figure out how to live with them." ---- And, the DNR wasting our time and money on ineffective solutions here PLUS Dayton proposing a fee hike on Critical Habitat license plates is making me say bye-bye to that license plate. If the license bureau came out with Critical Thinking license plates whose fee income supported the hiring of actual thinking people, that may get my money now. Shooting wolves and moose. Wanting to spend millions on a coon rapids dam that will still be ineffective to asian carp according to the DNR's own scientists. Putting in a bubbler. Ridiculous.

Attempting to thoroughly clean boats will not work either. I recently learned that it only takes 10...TEN...cells of the common norovirus in order to infect someone else. I would have expected something like 100-200. Nope...TEN. So, how few of these veligers does it take to infect a lake? Removing all of them from every nook and cranny of a boat and its trailer is impossible. Asking animals to not go from lake to lake is also impossible.

I'm fairly certain the DNR has already said that there's no definitive link between the spread of zebra mussels and waterfowl. Also, the little guys (veligers) need to stay in water to survive, so it's not possible for them to attach to a bird or other animal and live outside of water.

I agree with you rshackleford. It's as useless as a bucket without a bottom to stop the spread. Maybe you can slow them down, but eventually they will find a way. I'm done supporting the DNR and sold my boat. Too many restrictions, too busy at the ramps, and too many people fishing! No offense just not fun anymore.