Southern Accents

From May, 1996 (Update #27)

As zebra mussels spread across the country, the body of zebra mussel literature keeps growing. For the southern region of the United States, Louisiana Sea Grant's Southern Region Zebra Mussel Newsletter offers information about new settlement sites and control experiences. The spring 1996 issue covers adult mussel and veliger densities at power plants and industrial facilities along the southern reaches of the Mississippi River. Along with reports on recent research, new products and regulations relative to zebra mussel dispersal, the newsletter offers such tidbits as the fact that no municipal water intakes in the New Orleans area, except Jefferson Parish Waterworks, have yet been treated for zebra mussels. To receive copies of the newsletter, which is free, contact Marilyn Barrett-O'Leary, Louisiana Sea Grant, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-7507, phone (504) 388-6451, email moleary@lsuvm.sncc.lsu.edu.

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The Zebra Mussel Update was a 4- to 8-page quarterly national newsletter published by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute from May 1990 through May 1997. The ZMU documented the spread of the zebra mussel -- an exotic nuisance mussel -- through North America's freshwater environments, especially the Great Lakes, and on efforts to control it.