What to do:
Before you remove your boat;
Give the boat a high speed run to help detach fouling mussels. ( Hull waxes or silicone applications can significantly reduce fouling )
When you remove your boat:
- Hose and brush down the boat
- Drain all bilge water, live wells, bait buckets and waste.
- Destroy and dispose of all live bait.
- Remove all weed from boat and trailer
- Clean down your engine
- Allow the boat to dry out and leave in the sunshine for a week – longer if the weather is dull and wet.
- Ensure that zebra mussels are not returned alive to the water.
- Dry keep nets or dip them in hot water.
Please report zebra mussels from new areas to:
Dr Dan Minchin, Marine Institute.
Fisheries Research Centre,
Abbotstown, Dublin 15
Tel: + 353 1 8210111
Fax: + 353 1 8205078
email: dminchin@frc.ie
or
Dr T.K. Mc Carthy, Zoology Department
University of Galway
Tel: + 353 91 512008 or + 353 91 750379
Fax: + 353 91 750526
email to tk.mccarthy@ucg.ie or visit their webpage at http://www.nuigalway.ie/freshwater/zebra/
Source: Marine Institute ‘Foras na Mara’