No Mussels Found in Either Ohio

From February 19, 1992 (update #12)

COLUMBUS, Ohio - No confirmed sightings of zebra mussels in any Ohio waters outside Lake Erie had been reported as of December, according to the Zebra Mussel Update section of that month's issue of Ohio Sea Grant's Twine Line newsletter. Nor were any adult or veliger zebra mussels detected during 1991 in the 280-mile stretch of the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Clover Port, Ky., which has been monitored since January 1991 by researchers from the University of Louisville Water Resources Laboratory. Quoting Ken Paxton, assistant administrator of the Fish Management Section of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife, the Twine Line said the ODNR has received reports of zebra mussels in Wellington and West Branch Reservoirs, as well as a report of live zebra mussels on a boat used in Indian Lake that had been docked in Lake Erie. Follow-up surveys by ODNR staff have turned up no mussels, so these reports are considered unconfirmed sightings.

ID: 19920219-6.

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.