While I was sitting at the Great Lakes United table at the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts a few weeks ago, a visitor asked if we could harvest and eat zebra mussels. They commented that they ...

It's imperative to stop the spread before it gets out of hand. Zebra mussels eat plankton, a source of food for native species; colonize fish spawning areas and beaches; and clog pipes.

By Forrest Adams Last summer zebra mussels were discovered in Prior Lake and this summer in Lake Minnetonka, sandwiching the communities of Chanhassen, Eden Prairie, Victoria, Chaska and Shakopee.

but at the same time zebra mussels can filter out the base of the food chain that minnows need. If there’s not enough to eat for minnows, that may impact game fish. In walleye lakes across the ...

But the new research doesn’t carry the message that it’s not safe to eat wild-caught fish or that fish from lakes invaded by zebra mussels are toxic and shouldn’t be consumed, she said.