Mayors, Olympics for Crayfish, wasRe: Mussel Predation (David Dobbs)

David, I dunno. We had the Olympics here in 1984 (gosh, was it that long ago? It was great fun, and, amazingly, there was less freeway traffic than normal...I guess with all the horror stories everyone left town!) What I didn't like was the events were grossly overpriced. I remember seeing a Water Polo match and paying $35 a ticket in '84 dollars. I guess that would be double that now. But, the Marathon ran right thru my neighborhood, and I actually got to meet, well, see some of my neighbors for the first time. The second time being when everyone piled out of their apartments at 4:17AM on MLK day after the big Earthquake of 94, a . What can I say, LA is not a very friendly town. Chicago would be lots better! Jerry --- On Tue, 2/17/09, david dobbs <tm… [at] yahoo.com> wrote: From: david dobbs <tm… [at] yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Snail Predation was..Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Giant man eating goldfish (Crawfish) To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 7:58 PM Jerry, Sounds great, a giant crawfish that could eat Mayor Daley when he visits the lakefront and take his 2016 Olympics with him. That's right, almost no one in the sailing community wants the Olympics here. David Dobbs --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Gerald Sobel <sobel_solar@ yahoo.com> wrote: > From: Gerald Sobel <sobel_solar@ yahoo.com> > Subject: Snail Predation was..Re: [Cal_Boats] Re: Giant man eating goldfish (Chris) > To: Cal_Boats@yahoogrou ps.com > Date: Tuesday, February 17, 2009, 9:16 PM > Well, out of curiosity, and...the fact that I am among the > first graduates, in 1968, of the renamed in 1964, College of > Agriculture and ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, of Rutgers > university, and therefore my duty, I looked up Zebra and > Quagga snail predators. Seems that crawfish love'em, and > birds will eat them too. The crawfish eat up to 100 of the > little varmints a day, but aren't making any headway in > controling them. > > I did read something about the mussels filtering out > pollution and improving water quality, and providing > fertilizer for aquatic grasses, (yes an letting light reach > greater depths), which then foul props. Billions are being > spent clearing water pipes in municipal water systems and > power plants. See what did I tell you about being cheaper to > station armed guards at launching ramps? In any case I can > see that keeping pipes clean, repowering boats with burned > up engines from clogged cooling systems, should keep some > manpower employed. I wonder how acidification affects mussel > shells? The Quagga mussels were brought here from Russia and > the Ukraine (so much for the economic benefits of the end of > the Cold war), so they are worse than the Zebras, they can > withstand harsher climate conditions. I wonder what the > Russians and such do about these mussels. Do they at least > have a recipe for them? > > > > > > > > > > Recent Activity 4 New Members 2 New Photos 1 New Files Visit Your Group Yahoo! News Odd News You won't believe it, but it's true Yahoo! Finance It's Now Personal Guides, news, advice & more. Check out the Y! Groups blog Stay up to speed on all things Groups! .