Killing invasive NZ mud snails

[Mike]

You can check the 2023 stocking schedule. There usually aren’t any or else there are very few changes to the county assignments for the individual hatcheries; however, some counties’ waters are split among two or three hatcheries, Berks and Schuylkill come to mind, but even the waters within those splits typically remain consistent for a given hatchery.

 

[Cznymph]

Mike do know where the fish in PG and benner usually go ti geographically?

Just by looking at the stocking lists online, I’ve found the following. The mudsnail infected hatcheries stock these counties at least once during the 2023 season.

Benner- Allegheny, Beaver, Carbon, Columbia, Huntington, Juniatia, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Mifflin, Monroe, Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Pike, Susquehanna, and Wayne.


Pleasant Gap- Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Dauphin, Elk, Fayette, Lebanon, Somerset, and Westmoreland.

31 out of 67 counties in the state are going to be stocked by two hatcheries where they can’t guarantee that the fish won’t be transporting New Zealand Mudsnails.

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

(Just don't use Formula 410.)
Do the snails die when they dry out? Maybe we're all fishing too much if our waders never dry.
Seriously though, knowing that UV breakdown of polymers AND introduction of toxins are potential issues, should consideration be given to "cooking off" the critters in the sunshine, without hosing things down with chemical cleaners?

 

[Fish Sticks]

Just by looking at the stocking lists online, I’ve found the following. The mudsnail infected hatcheries stock these counties at least once during the 2023 season.

Benner- Allegheny, Beaver, Carbon, Columbia, Huntington, Juniatia, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Mifflin, Monroe, Montour, Northampton, Northumberland, Pike, Susquehanna, and Wayne.


Pleasant Gap- Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler, Cambria, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Dauphin, Elk, Fayette, Lebanon, Somerset, and Westmoreland.

31 out of 67 counties in the state are going to be stocked by two hatcheries where they can’t guarantee that the fish won’t be transporting New Zealand Mudsnails.

Jesus christ

 

[CRB]

Sooner or later all the waters will have invasives most fisherman will not check their gear nor wash their boats just look at zebra muscles and how it has spread from north to south.

 

[sixfootfenwick]

You can check the 2023 stocking schedule. There usually aren’t any or else there are very few changes to the county assignments for the individual hatcheries; however, some counties’ waters are split among two or three hatcheries, Berks and Schuylkill come to mind, but even the waters within those splits typically remain consistent for a given hatchery.

Since that was done and it shows a large number of counties being stocked with no guarantee of mudnails being transported by the fish, could you use your contacts and ask the PFBC to use 409 and bleach scrubbed on the stocked trout? Especially the gill area.


Anything helps, thanks.

 

[Silent Ocelot]

I second @sixfootfenwick's initiative.

 

[Fly-Swatter]

IDK, it seems like cat is out of the barn....