{"id":8265,"date":"2017-03-02T10:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T17:07:15","slug":"aquatic-invasive-species-quagga-mussel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/aquatic-invasive-species-quagga-mussel\/","title":{"rendered":"Aquatic Invasive Species in the Great Lakes: The Quagga Mussel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Invasive<\/a>Quagga mussels, which arrived in Lake Michigan in the 1990s via ballast water discharged from ships, have colonized vast expanses of the Lake Michigan bottom, reaching densities as high as roughly 35,000 quagga mussels per square meter. The invasive species that can have major economic impacts filters up to 4 liters of water per day, and so far seems unaffected by any means of population control. It is also a constant threat to other systems, as it is readily transported between water bodies.<\/p>\n

Researchers have long known that these voracious filter feeders impact water quality in the lake, but their influence on water movement had remained largely a mystery.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough Lake Michigan is already infested with these mussels, an accurate filtration model would be imperative for determining the fate of substances like nutrients and plankton in the water,\u201d Purdue University PhD candidate David Cannon said. \u201cIn other quagga mussel-threatened systems, like Lake Mead, this could be used to determine the potential impact of mussels on the lake, which could in turn be used to develop policy and push for funding to keep mussels out of the lakes.\u201d<\/p>\n

For full article and video view\u00a0Purdue Researchers Get to the Bottom of Another Quagga Mussel Impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Resources:
\nA Field Guide to Fish Invaders of the Great Lake Regions<\/a>, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant (IISG)
\nProtect Your Waters<\/a>,\u00a0U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service & U.S. Coast Guard
\nProfitability of Hybrid Striped Bass Cage Aquaculture in the Midwest<\/a>, The Education Store, Purdue Extension resource center
\nA Guide to Marketing for Small-Scale Aquaculture Producers<\/span><\/span><\/a>, The Education Store
\nAquaculture Industry in Indiana Growing<\/a>, Purdue Today
\nSustainable Aquaculture: What does it mean to you?<\/a>, The Education Store
\nPond and Wildlife Management<\/a>\u00a0website, Purdue Extension
\nFish Cleaning with Purdue Extension County Extension Director<\/a>, Got Nature? Blog, Purdue Extension \u2013 Forestry and Natural Resources
\nAquaponics: What to consider before starting your business<\/a>, YouTube, Purdue Ag Economics
\nAquatics & Fisheries<\/a>, Playlist, YouTube, Purdue Extension \u2013 Forestry and Natural Resources<\/p>\n

Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant<\/a>\u00a0(IISG)
\nUniversity of Illinois Extension and Purdue University Extension<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quagga mussels, which arrived in Lake Michigan in the 1990s via ballast water discharged from ships, have colonized vast expanses of the Lake Michigan bottom, reaching densities as high as roughly 35,000 quagga mussels per square meter. The invasive species that can have major economic impacts filters up to 4 liters of water per day, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,79,45,46],"tags":[402,367,382],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alert","category-aquaculturefish","category-aqua","category-howto","category-invasiveanimalspecies","tag-iisg","tag-invasive-species","tag-mussels"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 01:39:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8265"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34028,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8265\/revisions\/34028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/fnr\/extension\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}