President Donald Trump ordered the name change of Lake Ontario. It will be Lake America eli Lake America.
At the event, a map was displayed that read “let’s make the Great Lakes even bigger”. The show is related to the United States and Canada squabbling over customs duties.
Does Trump know that a harmful alien species lives in the lake, which comes from across the border and ruins the living conditions of the locals?
Unfortunately, this newcomer cannot be expelled from the country or put behind bars, and no fence will keep him out.
At issue is a migratory clam.
Scientifically named Dreissena polymorpha. The migratory clam once arrived by ship from Europe like many other problems, at least from the point of view of the Native American population.
Originally, the migratory clams lived in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea area, and they would not have gone anywhere to migrate if humans had not been involved in seafaring. In the late 1980s, mussels spread to the Great Lakes of America. There are also in the Baltic Sea.
Almost all articles on the migratory clam are written from the point of view of the disadvantages.
It’s hard to find anything good to say about the animal. In everyone’s opinion, the wandering clam is a stupid and bad animal, a low-intelligence mollusk, as the president might say in his style.
Problem is that the migratory mussel reproduces extremely efficiently and fills the entire body of water.
It displaces native mussel species and takes food from other aquatic animals. It grows at the bottom of lakes, harbors and piers as a thick mat and clogs the water intake pipes of power plants.
It filters the water and absorbs phytoplankton from it. It spits other food particles to the bottom. Fish and small aquatic organisms do not eat the clam’s slimy ribs.
You can’t even eat the mussel itself. They say it tastes bad and may contain environmental toxins. In addition, the seashell’s sharp shell cuts wounds on the feet at the beach.
Is it anything good in a clam?
Well, it effectively clarifies water. One small clam filters more than a liter of water per day. The light reaches deeper and the plants do better. But even this is not good for the ecosystem everywhere.