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I'm not talking about CA. I'm talking about a state where every body of water over a certain size has to have a public boat ramp and the vast majority of them
by dsfyu404ed 7y ago
I'm not talking about CA. I'm talking about a state where every body of water over a certain size has to have a public boat ramp and the vast majority of them have no facilities. This is not the yacht club with their complimentary hose for washing off your boat we're talking about. Human powered watercraft do not have inaccessible bilges and cooling systems to harbor invasive species making them much less of a risk of bringing new species with them to a particular body of water.
- gamblor956 7y agoThere's this thing called chlorine that's been around for a few decades, at least, which owners of motorized vessels can use to clean out inaccessible locations like bilge pumps and cooling systems. It's actually more likely for personal watercraft to carry invasive species because they're less likely to be cleaned (even though they're easier to clean). Inspections for invasive species have been a major issue for at least a decade, because nobody wants to repeat what happened in the Great Lakes, where invasive species nearly destroyed the lake ecology and its many fisheries.