Hi,I am here to tell you about invasive species, they need to go away some are harming other animals.We need to do something to stop them here are some ideas to start out with,(clean,drain,dry and biological control) that will ensure aquatic plants to have a positive influence on east Texas ecosystem.
Did you know that there is a documented list of over 820 invasive species and invasive aquatic plants? theses plsnta non native to this country they spread rapidly and take over lakes and other bodies of water ,and they will do this in two weeks or less . The problem is invasive aquatic plants
They are taking the oxygen out of the water and killing other native species, lowering water supply , also clogging boat lains they are also using chemicals to kill these plants this chemical is called herbicide
Biological control can help decrease the percentage of invasive aquatic plants biological control is a long term solution and is inexpensive but the bugs will not last through the winter, the will freeze I think they could do more research and find more healthy and stable bugs
So one more solution is clean, drain, dry. That means you spray your boat with chemicals and then wash it off. I mean, would you want your children to be able to swim in a lake? I think that instead of doing all these steps we could possible make a clear coating that we could put on our boats so the zebra mussels could not stick and Giant Salvinia would just slide off. We could also make some sort of box that we put on the motors that will still let the boat move but so Hydrilla and Giant Salvinia will not get caught in your motors.
Now remember that clean drain dry and biological control it’s a positive just saying if you want our beautiful native species to dye off don’t do anything but if you want our kid kids to have fun at lakes and streams do something about it