Abundance of invasive clams at Stateline beach
By Janine Green
This picture was taken at Nevada Beach on July 19, 2010. The kids were out swimming and began to collect these clams out of the lake. It is apparent to me by the number and size of the clams that the huge push they are making to check boats and prevent the clam population is too late.
These were gathered by children by just scooping them up in their hands. They said there were hundreds of them and they
Clams at Nevada Beach in Stateline. Photo/Janine Green
just wanted to show us.
Janine Green is a resident of Carson City
The huge push in inspecting boats is to prevent the invasive mussles (zebra and quagga) from entering the lake. There are many things they are trying to do to eradicate the clams that are already present. At least your kids are helping out with that. Good job kids!
Most invasive things are not spotted until they become a problem. We might need to think of other options for getting rid of this invasive species. If word were to leak out that they might be a powerful aphrodisiac when combined with invasive algae their extinction would be almost guaranteed. Now to find a way to profit from it, so we can retrieve some of the millions and more millions spent for eradication. (hence the stiff fines regarding regulation abuse). Until then, we have to do the best we can and hope it will be good enough for the future. They multiply by the billions and love our lakes. People, be mindful of your actions. We are all paying for this in one way or another. It is straight out of our collective pocket books, let’s not waste it.
Why don’t we find out WHERE and we can all go down and snorkle in the area to bring them up. I know I would love to do that!
Maybe spitting in the wind will help. In the era of mass travel it is wishful thinking to believe us humans can stop the transport of non native species to every corner of our planet. We may slow them down, but the noxious species will eventually win and all we can do is spend gobs of your money to control their populations. Oh yeah, and fine the
holy heck out of them. We will teach them a lesson to mess with the TRPAZI.