NOTE: Due to the termination of federal Sea Grant funding for this project, the Zebra Mussel Update newsletter is no longer being published. Additional sources of information about zebra mussels and other nonindigenous aquatic nuisance species are listed below.

• Zebra Mussel Update newsletters archive  (The text from all 30 issues!)

 

• Some final observations from ZMU editor Clifford Kraft.

 

• How to order your own customized version of our popular Zebra Mussel Watch public outreach card
  (More than 2 million sold to date!)

 

• Some other good sources of zebra mussel information.

 

• A video Public Service Message for Wisconsin residents.  (700KB AVI file, 10 seconds long)

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.  By 1996, nearly 10,000 copies of the Zebra Mussel Update were being distributed  free of charge to subscribers throughout the Great Lakes region and beyond in a collaborative project involving the Wisconsin and Ohio Sea Grant programs and Brunswick Marine.

Illustrated print copies of past issues of the ZMU are available free of charge from: