Good feedback Anthropic. Sorry should have just condensed my response to a simple summary:

Pros: Chara is dense and provides great cover for YOY fish to help ensure recruitment, and also promotes invertebrate life and ties up a lot of nutrients which may be used by less desired vegetation/algae. Also it's fairly easy to control with algaecides, physical removal, or biological methods GC or dense crayfish populations.

Cons: It can expand quickly, and does survive winters. Like any other macrophyte, management is key.


Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~ Henry David Thoreau

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