Alert - Visiting / Returning fishermen. Pest.

[ellicat]

With a few visitors to this site from overseas I thought this would be an article that should be read. It's about the introduction of a pest that can spread from one cell being present on gear used in freshwater. i.e. a lure used overseas could be responsible for an outbreak here.

Didymo/Rock Snot

/>http://www.ifs.tas.gov.au/ifs/newsitems/didymo
/>http://blogs.smh.com.au/travel/archives/2006/04/trouble_in_para.html

Cheers

Ellicat

PS Thanks to a poster on the other site for the alert.

Post edited by: ellicat, at: 2007/05/30 11:32

Post edited by: ellicat, at: 2007/05/30 12:14

[James W]

scary stuff hey:(

[ellicat]

Especially it's name....Would expect it to bloom in winter:sick:

Post edited by: ellicat, at: 2007/05/30 22:02

[Big_unit]

Crikey ya wouldnt want that snot in the dam, would ya ?

I can hear Steve's voice, Quarantine Matters !!!

Cheers

James