ApocaDocs: Fight against invasives remains fluid: VHS changes definition, views of battle

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Posted Sun Jun 22 2008: from Green Bay Press Gazette (WI):


	Fight against invasives remains fluid: VHS changes definition, views of battle http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1214135791 Dozens of dead panfish and bass seen floating on West Alaska Lake in Kewaunee County recently were not the result of viral hemorrhagic septicemia, but rather a common bacterial infection.... Instead, it was columnaris, one of the oldest known fish diseases and one that typically strikes following some type of environmental stress.... Gansberg said there are four aquatic invasives high on the local radar: Eurasian water milfoil, curly leaf pondweed, zebra mussels and VHS.

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The ApocaDocs say:

Betamax would have solved the VHS -- perhaps a leaf straightener would solve the pondweed?