how did humans introduce zebra mussels to lake eerie?

Question

be serious and lake eerie in canada pleazzz be honest im loking for a breif answer

Answer 1

When large ships cross the ocean, they have to ride at a certain level in the water. As they take on cargo, they sink down. Sometimes, however, they don't take on enough cargo to sink low enough into the water, so they take on water balast to make up for the lack of cargo. When they get to their destination, they sometimes have to dump the water balast to make room for cargo. Ships dumped the water balast into the Great Lakes, along with zebra mussel larvae. There are no natural predetors for zebra mussels in Lake Erie, so they grew without anything to check their growth

Answer 2

It's most likely that zebra mussel larvae arrived in the Great Lakes in the ballast water of ships. Ballast water is what ships have in compartments down low in the ship to help the ship stay upright on the ocean. Just think of how a small boat would be more stable if there were a weight in the bottom of the boat.

Ocean-going ships pump in ballast water from wherever they are starting out and they release it into the body of water where they end the trip. Then they take on more ballast water for the return trip. They don't keep the same water in there all the time because it would get all slimy and nasty.

The zebra mussel larvae are tiny and they swim freely in the water. So they were likely pumped into ships in the Caspian Sea and released in the Great Lakes.

Lots of students think that zebra mussels must have been transported as adult mussels stuck onto the outside of ships. Now when somebody says that during class, you can just smile and know that they didn't bother to find out the real answer.

Answer 3

in case you're close to lake Erie pass there and %. up something off the backside, deeper than 10 ft, and it ought to have Zebra Mussels linked to it. in case you hit upon a Zebra and are thinking what to do with it kill it. Zebra mussels are parasites.

Answer 4

Larvae were sucked into the ballast tanks of freighters in the far East, then dumped in Eerie when the ships offloaded old cargo and loaded up new cargo, then needed to dump some ballast water to balance the new loads.