What are inspectors looking and feeling for when they conduct a physical watercraft inspection?

If a bait well or a hold on your boat has water in it, but the water looks clean, do you still need to drain and dry the hold before launching your boat?

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.

It only takes one plant fragment to start a new population of Eurasian watermilfoil.

Adult quagga and zebra mussels can survive out of the water for up to 30 days.

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?