Mussel Identification Workshops Held

From April 30, 1991 (update #7)

Some 240 water intake personnel learned to identify zebra mussels and their larval veligers in a series of 15 Wisconsin Zebra Mussel Watch identification workshops conducted during March and April by Wisconsin Sea Grant scientists and specialists. Watch Coordinator Clifford Kraft and Assistant Coordinator Jory Jonas led the series of half-day workshops, which were held in Milwaukee, Racine, Manitowoc, Green Bay, Oshkosh and Superior. The workshops were especially designed for utilities and industries interested in performing more frequent in-house monitoring for the mussel than the biweekly sampling offered under the Watch project. The training produced some immediate pay-offs - Racine Water Utility and Wisconsin Public Service Corp. employees both accurately identified zebra mussels in their respective utilities shortly after participating in one of the workshops.

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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.