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Aquatic Plants By Ray Hangge
Posted on Saturday, August 25 @ 10:50:22 CDT by admin |
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I would like to talk to you about the value of shoreline aquatic plants or fish habitat. We refer to this as the weed line. Healthy aquatic plants belong in a lake. A weed is something out of place like in your lawn or garden and don't belong.
Diverse submerged and emergent aquatic plants protect shorelines from erosion, by wind driven waves that pound the shoreline. Their root structure holds the bottom soil in place and buffers the impact on the shore.
Shoreline aquatic plants absorb the unwanted nutrients that turn water green with algae. Algae feeds on these nutrients and consumes oxygen. The fish bite slows as oxygen is depleted and fish get sluggish.
Fish are stressed as water temps heat up. They may go deeper to find cooler water, but more often for comfort , they go to into the weed line where healthy aquatic plants release oxygen. That is if the shoreline aquatic plants have not been destroyed by cutting, hauling sand in or replaced with stone rip rap and habitat destroyed.
These same shoreline aquatic plants serve as ambush sites for predator fish like muskies , pike, walleye and bass. They also provide shade with plants like large curly leaf cabbage, leafy pond weed, and bushy pond weed.
Shoreline aquatic plants grow as deep as sunlight can penetrate. Submerged Chara provides a green bottom carpet that has a massive root structure to hold lake soils down from wave action that stirs bottom soils into suspension and clouds the water. Usually, lakes where there is Chara, there is daphnia, a animal plankton, there is clearer water. Chara provides spawning areas for some fish. Carp often uproot vegetation.
In many cases we have destroyed, the very reason we were attracted to the lake in the first place.
We urge you to vote FOR the DEDICATED FUNDING BILL REFERENDUM. This bill adds 3/8 of 1% to the sales tax. This money goes for; 1/8 or 90 million or more per year for fish and wildlife habitat, and 1/8 or 90 mil. for clean water, wetlands, lake clean up etc. and 1/8 or 90 mil. for parks trails and arts. To protect shorelines and create open space on lakes from development we need to have a priority for more state parks on lakes. We cannot stress enough how important this is to all who love Minnesota out doors. A final thought, can you imagine the potential of enlarging our fish hatcheries with more rearing ponds to increase stocking of every species.
Public Relations Director
Ray Hangge
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