Diving for Dollars

From October, 1995 (Update #25)

Following an August 30th dive on a shipwreck in Lake Champlain, U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) became a zebra mussel believer, calling for more research dollars to control zebra mussels. In an interview with Vermont Public Radio, Leahy said that he took the late August dive to get a personal look at the extent of the zebra mussel problem. Leahy dove to a wreck he had visited two years ago when it had no zebra mussels. Today it's covered with them, he said. Two years from now people probably won't even be able to see the ship, Leahy said. Leahy said that zebra mussels were clearly in Lake Champlain "in a big way," and that he was amazed by the change during the past two years. He said he would bring the story back to other senators and the administration, encouraging more money to be directed towards zebra mussel research.

ID: 199510-4.

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.