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Revised: September 02, 2016 | You are here: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/estuaries/disturbances/invasive_4students.html
Scientists fear that the introduction of zebra mussels is causing a disruption in the Great Lakes food web. This site explains how this is happening.
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/pubs/brochures/dipo-fish/dipo-fish.html
Imagine that something is wrong with your local estuary. Be a sleuth and solve an estuary mystery!
http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/kids/games/mysteryintro.htm
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Recently a nonnative, air-breathing, freshwater fish, known as a snakehead, has invaded parts of the Chesapeake Bay. Find out more about this unique fish and what is being done to eradicate it.
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/fisheries/snakeheadfactsheetedited.pdf
These aren't invaders from other worlds but unwitting travelers — organisms we have moved, by design or accident, from one region of the world to another. What is the cost they are exacting on our ecosystems? What can we do to stop the invasion?!
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/invasive_species/
index.cfm?pageID=957
National Ocean Service | NOAA | Department of Commerce
Revised: September 02, 2016 | You are here: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/estuaries/disturbances/invasive_4students.html