Zebra Mussel Funds May Be Cut

From March 7, 1994 (update #20)

As part of an effort to trim $3.5 billion from the 1995 budget, the White House would like to cut $3.7 million in funds dedicated to studying and controlling the zebra mussel. The cuts are part of the administration's plan to eliminate 150 federal programs.

The funding cut would include $2.8 million originally budgeted for Sea Grant's zebra mussel programs and $900,000 for the Great Lakes Environmental Research Labs' zebra mussel program in Ann Arbor, Mich.

"The losses of funding would mean a reduction in monitoring of the Great Lakes harbors, and in the education efforts with industries and governments affected by the infestation," said Allen H. Miller, UW Sea Grant assistant director for Advisory Services, "but we would continue to do whatever we can with available resources.".

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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.