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’