So, basically we’re talking about underwater Kudzu?
InkBlot
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“Killer weed” that turns Scylla into an environmentalist? Gotta be a good thing.
It’s kinda like a weed, eh? Call Woody Harrelson! I bet we can smok…, er, make clothing out of it. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
No, the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Duh.
elucidator or DtC how is the battle with Eurasian Milfoil going in Minnesota?
We have definitely turned the corner, and can see light at the end of the tunnel.
But, serioiusly, folks…don’t know that much about it. Seems to be a problem more in snarling up motors on motorboats, so a problem for other people, which is almost as good as no problem at all.
Speaking of snakefish and giant Chinese carp, why don’t we just make it open season on them? I haven’t seen a species yet that American sportsmen couldn’t wipe out given just a little encouragement.
Hey, I knew the French government weren’t environmentalists when they sank the Rainbow Warrior and murdered a photojournalist who was aboard.
That’s exactly the case with the snakeheads in the Potomac River. The enviro officials are warmly encouraging all the fishing derbies they can, and the fishermen’s clubs are giving prizes for any snakeheads caught.
Yeah, but they were arrested for sword-throwing.
Hey, let’s not badmouth zebra mussels! Sure, they contribute to the decline of some aquatic ecosystems, but they sometimes do some good.
Take Oneida Lake, the largest lake completely within New York State. It used to be so excessively eutrophic that swimming and cottaging (in the clean meaning, you pervs! ;)) were on the decline, and boating was not growing despite its being the nearest lake to rapidly expanding urban areas.
Then the zebra mussels moved in – and began eating the algae like teenage boys turned loose in a Ponderosa all-you-can-eat buffet.
Now the lake is much clearer, but with adequate unicellular and multicellular algae to keep the ecosystem going – thanks to the evil zebra mussels!
I have a feeling a goby or loach is going to evolve fairly soon (and I’m talking years, not centuries) that thrives on Caulerpa!
BTW, anybody heard of any outbreaks of Caulerpa near R’lyeh? 
It’s slowed, but it still pops up in about ten lakes a year. attempts at erradication are actually progrssing. Shit, at least the stuff doesn’t emit poison.
I stopped eating filter feeders when a buddy told of how he can now see 30 feet (9 meters) down in Lake Michigan thanks to them. I don’t want to eat what used to be murking up the world’s water.
Do you still eat lobster? Or catfish? All bottom feeders subsist on stuff that you, I, or even your dog would turn up a nose at. Sorry, in my opinion, this is a no-go argument. Face it, a lot of what we eat from the ocean is processed gunk. (Processed biologically, but not too long ago it was shit and dead, stinking corpses.)
You don’t hear much about sea lampreys in the Great Lakes anymore, either.
Actually, they’re still there – and fished regularly, for some reason!
I can afford lobster? And I prefer farm-raised catfish, where my illusions that all they eat is Purina Catfish Chow can stay intact. And my wife had senile old relatives that wouldn’t eat fish because fish “ate the boys;” near as she could tell they were referring to men lost at sea during WWI.
But there is a difference between a scavenger and something that gets its daily adult requirement of dioxin by filtering it straight out of the water. Not much, and the scavenger probably concentrates it better…
That does it. No more food of any sort! Except I hear those snakeheads are real tasty.
Absolutely No. That was when French were against Freedom. Now that French are against Ecosystem, we eat “Eco Fries”. That will unite US left, right and center (right will grumble, but submit, because there’s money in it).
Money?
It’s working already!