Mussels Quotes

We're already having a lot of problems in Tennessee with Asian carp and Zebra mussels. We don't need the snakehead added to that. - Bobby Wilson

This creek is home to several threatened and endangered species of mussels. Our main issue is the residential and commercial development and mining. There are so many natural resources here in Lee County and if you're into nature, there's plenty to offer here in Auburn. - Marylou Smith

These are top-level predators. Like us, they eat anchovies, squid, salmon and mussels. They are sentinels for human health, because they share our ecosystems and prey. We may see impacts in sea lions before people - they could be an early warning. - Frances Gulland

The whole boat has to be painted. Especially the bottom of the boat; you have to put on anti-fouling paint to keep marine life such as mussels from growing on it. - George Gilbert

The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place is the same place. Kudzu. Zebra Mussels. Water Hyacinths. Starlings. Burger Kings.
The local natives, anything unique gets squeezed out.
The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi.
We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time. - Chuck Palahniuk

The question is, what do we want our world to look like? People have stated a strong preference to policy-makers that, 'We want our world to bear some resemblance to that which we once knew.' That includes fish and mussels. - George Howard

Mussels may be invisible to most folks, including anglers. But if you don't protect them they're gone, and with them a critical link in the whole chain of natural resources. - Dan Tredinnick

It is not at all far fetched to be concerned about zebra mussels in Montana. Zebra mussels are aquatic hitchhikers. They can survive long periods of time as larvae found in residual water in a boat, or as adults attached to the boat. Once they infest a system, there is no feasible alternative to stop their progress. - Mike Koopal