Ice fishers asked to carefully clean equipment to avoid spreading invasive species
The East Kootenay Invasive Species Council has message for anglers who enjoy ice fishing — invasive species management is a four season thing.
“You may think because it’s cold, frozen or dead that invasives are dominant, and the impacts may slip your mind this time of year, but invasive species can be spread from one body of water to the next even in winter”, said Megan MacPhee, EKISC’s Education and Communication Manager. “You may pick up some seeds during the bushwhack to the fishing spot, but there is also mud, debris and plants that are still thriving under the ice.This time of year something to be careful about is ice augers.
Check anything that was on the bottom of the lake, suspended in the water or in a weedy area before moving to a different part of the lake or another water body.You can learn about invasive species and how to identify them atInvasive species are plants, animals and microorganisms that have been introduced outside of their past or present, natural distribution. Their introduction has the potential to cause serious damage to the environment, the economy and social values.
EKISC says invasive species are among the world’s greatest threats to the survival of wild animal and plant life and are the second leading cause to biodiversity loss worldwide. These invaders arrive, often accidentally, from elsewhere in the world and, in the absence of natural predators, kill, crowd out or otherwise devastate native species and their ecosystems.
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