New Publications

From April 30, 1991 (update #7)

* Standard Protocols for Monitoring and Sampling Zebra Mussels - written by Ellen Marsden and published by the Illinois Natural History Survey - includes detailed descriptions of procedures to collect and quantify zebra mussels at all life stages. These draft protocols will be revised this fall, following a full summer of field trials by scientists throughout the region. The Great Lakes Research Consortium of the State University of New York sponsored this effort to establish a standard monitoring protocol for effective comparisons between sampling locations. Several options are presented for different types of data collection, and even those people only interested in detecting the presence of zebra mussels will find the report useful. For a free copy of the report, contact Ellen Marsden, Lake Michigan Biological Station, Illinois Natural History Survey, P.O. Box 634, Zion, IL 60099, phone (708) 872-8677.

* Zebra Mussels: A 1991 Great Lakes Overview is a handy eight-page primer produced by New York Sea Grant on behalf of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network. It includes suggestions for controlling zebra mussels both on boats and in water intakes, and it features a centerfold invasion status map and a list of Sea Grant information contacts on the back cover. Free copies of the booklet are available at most Sea Grant offices regionwide. Bulk quantities cost 10 cents each; contact Pat Peterson at New York Sea Grant-Oswego, (315) 341-3042.

* Sightings of Zebra Mussels in Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River in 1990, compiled by T. Schaner and G.C. LeTendre of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, maps and documents 23 sightings of zebra mussels during 1990. Copies are available from the OMNR Lake Ontario Fisheries Unit, R.R. #4, Picton, Ont., Canada, K0K 2T0, phone (613) 476-2400.

ID: 19910430-13.

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.