Originally Posted By: CJBS2003
 Originally Posted By: Walt Foreman
the part of Santee-Cooper lake in SC that produced the world-record shellcracker had had a recent influx of Zebra mussels shortly before the record. They could possibly be okay if you had a good number of shellcracker in the pond; oftentimes they'll find their way to a pond without help, much in the way frogs do.


I could be wrong but I believe the species of bivalve that invaded the Santee Cooper that assisted the shellcracker along was the Asiatic clam. http://www.dnr.sc.gov/water/envaff/aquatic/zebra.html It too is quite invasive but in a different way. I recently introduced them into a pond as a test to see how they do in a small pond environment.

See http://www.pondboss.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=158752 for further info on the Asiatic clam.


Santee Cooper is notoriously turbid, right? Have the bivalves improved water clarity?

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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