What will greatly reduce the time it takes to inspect your watercraft for AIS?

Fragrant waterlilly has been found to be growing in Lake Samish.

Traveling with plants attached to your boat/trailer in Washington State is:

If you get a wire seal attached to your boat and trailer when leaving Lake Whatcom, and then come back to Lake Whatcom another day with the tether still intact, will you need to stop at a staffed inspection station?

If you boat on a lake infested with Eurasian watermilfoil or other aquatic weeds, what is the best way to prevent the plants from spreading somewhere else?

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.