Water Fowl Dispersing Invasive Organisms?

[MoCarp]

 I saw this on another fishing forum from another state, and had to share this here...the scientific community is full of data that suggests waterfowl are directly responsible for transmission of aquatic organisms. I am trying to get the data of a baltic state study of fish eggs fed to ducks, and finding viable fish eggs in duck feces....I don't think bubba the fisherman is hiking into a 1/4 acre farm pond thats over a mile in every direction to stock it with green sunfish, or carp...or  Fred the flyfisherman packing in brown trout for 4 days up some high mountain stream that can only be reached by using Carabiners, Ascenders Belay & Rappeling equipment!......food for thought

 

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"I wonder if pelicans, ducks and gulls can transport zebra mussel from lake to lake? Had to get new waders because old ones had a felt bottom on them. Seems zebra mussels can come from many ways and not just boats."
 

I can answer that, NO. Unintentional or intentional transport of water containing larvae, or in a few cases the actual adult zebra mussels are how they get transported from one waterbody to another. We know that, it is proven, there is not some bird flying around doing it.

Felt soles on waders have been implicated in the spread of New Zealand mudsnails. There also is no doubt about that.

Nebraska 

 

 

Article:  Experimental Quantification of Long Distance Dispersal Potential of Aquatic Snails in the Gut of Migratory Birds.                                                                                                                                             Casper H A van Leeuwen ·  Gerard van der Velde ·  Bart van Lith ·  Marcel Klaassen 

Article:  Gut travellers: Internal dispersal of aquatic organisms by waterfowl.                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Casper H. A. van Leeuwen ·  Gerard van der Velde ·  Jan M. Van Groenendael ·  Marcel Klaassen

Article:  Prerequisites for flying snails: External transport potential of aquatic snails by waterbird.                                                                                                                                                                                       C.H.A. Van Leeuwen ·  G. Van der Velde

Ectozoochory as a possible vector enhancing the spread of an alien amphipod Crangonyx pseudogracilis. Hydrobiologia.                                                                                                                               Rachalewski, M., Banha, F., Grabowski, M. & Anastácio, P.M. (2013)

 Waterbird-Mediated Passive Dispersal of River Shrimp Athyaephyra desmarestii. Hydrobiologia.                                                                                                                                                                                       Banha, F. and Anastácio, P.M. (2012).

Waterbird-mediated passive dispersal is a viable process for crayfish (Procambarus clarkii). Aquatic Ecology.                                                                                                                                                   Anastácio, P.M., Ferreira, M.P., Banha, F., Capinha, C., Rabaça, J.E. (2013)

 

[top_dollar]

It's organism.  Not organisum. No u.

[Mitch f]

 

[MoCarp]

4 hours ago, top_dollar said:

It's organism.  Not organisum. No u.

I don't see it spelled anywhere in that post with a U.... I prefer the term "Hydrobiologia"

(Mo-punches the Grammar Nazi in the cooter)

[lee G.]

He means in the thread title.

[bfishn]

1 hour ago, MoCarp said:

.... I prefer the term "Hydrobiologia"...

 

That's the title of a biology periodical. Other than that, it's not even a word.

[MoCarp]

fixed--happy? (still hits the grammar nazi in the cooter)

[lee G.]

[MoCarp]

here a quacker eating a zebra mussel

[fishinwrench]

Ya got any leech porn ?