Sterile Grass Carp Consume Beneficial Native Plants

/ Published in Aquatic Plant Management, Hydrilla, Lake & Waterway Management
Triploid Grass Carp
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission is planning to add 100 artificial and natural structures at 37 sites to provide additional fishing areas for the angling public at the Tuckertown Reservoir.  These fish attractors are intended to help offset the loss of aquatic vegetation in the presence of sterile grass carp. Sterile grass carp are a practical

Hydrilla Control and Herbicide Impacts on Lake Pinehurst Fishery

/ Published in Aquatic Herbicides, Blog
Spraying herbicide on the lake
Hydrilla.  The word alone sends shivers down the spines of anyone living, associated, or recreates on waterways.  It sends people into panic mode, as it should.  Hydrilla is an aquatic invasive species that has slowly been invading waters of the United States since being introduced in Florida in the 1960’s.  Hydrilla in one of the

Aquatic Invasive Species: Hydrilla

/ Published in Aquatic Invasive Species, Aquatic Plant Management, Hydrilla
Hydrilla has become the most serious aquatic weed problem for Florida and most of the U.S.
Native to Africa and believed to have been introduced to American waters from the aquarium trade in the 1960’s, hydrilla has quickly spread across the southern U.S. from Connecticut to California.  By the 1990’s millions was spent yearly on its control, but this year New York alone has budgeted $800,000 to fight the invasive aquatic plant.