Inspectors rely on both your answers to survey questions as well as a visual and physical inspection of the watercraft to make their risk determination.
What are inspectors looking and feeling for when they conduct a physical watercraft inspection?
A prevention program can help stop aquatic invasive species from being introduced.
What are the three important steps for preventing the spread of aquatic invasive species that should be done every time you go boating?
Once an aquatic invasive species becomes established in a waterbody, it becomes increasingly difficult and costly to manage the population.
Zebra and quagga mussels can attach themselves to hard surfaces but can be removed quite easily with a damp cloth.
Quagga and zebra mussels came to North America in the ballast tanks and on the anchor chains of large, transoceanic ships that entered the Great Lakes.
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