The Zebra Muussel Invasion

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Zebra Mussels

According to short-term mussel invasion, “ zebra mussels first appeared in Hudson River in may 1991. Furthermore, their number have reached over 500 million. In addition, the zebra mussels were filtering water every 1-4 days. After the zebra mussels were gone 80% of phytoplankton died. Then because there was no food the the zooplankton they were dying to. Because of the dying phytoplankton the fish were dying to! The zebra mussels were taking up all of the oxygen and were killing the phytoplankton the made oxygen.

In The Exotic Zebra Mussels the text states that, “ The zebra mussels poses widespread ecological and economic threats”. Additionally, zebra mussels can grow to be 50 millimeters. Along with, zebra

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