"terry mcdaid" wrote in message
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"Wolfgang" wrote in message
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I suspect that your expectations, or lack thereof, are fated to be a
matter of rapidly diminishing interest around here as, by your own
admission, they are elsewhere.

Wolfgang

I had my phone number de-listed when I made that comment, like I said, I
have lurked here for a while!! Your response was civil and my reaction to
it was not meant to cause offense.

I also know that you are one of the serious contributors to this group and
that you will check this out. When you do, we'll all .be just a little
bit better off. I think that this is a situation that this group may be
able to do something about, at least one person at a time.



Yeah, I know about Didymo, and I agree wholeheartedly that that its a very
serious looming threat. Its the closest thing to river snot you can imagine,
and it clogs up the waterways of New Zealand so fast that it would make your
head spin. It starts as little spots on rocks and the substrate, but grows
into these large, slimy mats that look like wet sewerage that cover
everything. Chokes out the bugs that feed the fish, blocks out boats and
water access...pretty much destroys a watershed beyond you imagination, and
does it very quickly. The fish don't die off, but they are seriously
impacted, and fishing becomes pretty much a joke. Your retrieves are all
gummed up with this slimy, stringy, gooey mess. And it spreads like
wildfire...fishermen who have waded in a stream with didymo and who do not
disenfect their wading felts will spread it to a new watershed, dooming it.
Some of the best fisheries in NZ have been destroyed by it, and there is an
underlying resignation that neighboring watersheds are doomed. It may change
NZ fishing forever, and not for the best.

I agree with PRM that this is one thing that we should get edumacated about,
and keep on our radar screens. It makes milfoil look like child's play. But
yeah, at this point it is definatey a NIMBY sort of thing, but we all should
know about it so we can react quickly if word of it ever spreads to our
states. Its a damn shame what its doing to NZ.

--riverman