Boaters enjoying South Dakota’s Lewis and Clark Lake near Yankton should expect to have their boats inspected when coming off the water in upcoming weeks after several boats moored in the marina were discovered to have zebra mussels attached.
The mussels were of multiple sizes, indicating that zebra mussels are reproducing in Lewis and Clark Lake.
Sam Stukel is a fisheries biologist with the Game, Fish & Parks, based in Yankton…
Stukel says they population seems to be exploding in Lewis & Clark Lake…
Stukel says zebra mussels can cause a lot of problems for lakes they inhabit…
Stukel says there are no effective measures, or natural predators to counter the expanding zebra mussel population. He says a single glass of lake water could contain hundreds of the microscopic mussel larvae.
