These Buoys Have No Mussels

From January 31, 1991 (update #6)

CHARLEVOIX, Mich. - No zebra mussels were found last fall during annual decommissioning inspections of navigation buoy hulls, moorings and sinkers from Lake Michigan, according to U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. P.L. Hawkins. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Acacia completed the fall decommissioning of buoys Dec. 18. Inspected buoys included those from Green Bay, Big Bay De Noc, Little Bay De Noc, Sturgeon Bay, Grand Traverse Bay, and Calumet Harbor, Ill. Inspection of buoy hulls and moorings will resume when the Acacia begins recommissioning the buoys in mid-March, Hawkins said.

ID: 19910131-6.

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.