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Lessons I have learned from AIS Research
Peter W. Sorensen Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Biology
University of Minnesota, St. Paul MN 55108
[email protected]; 612-624-4997
MN AIS Symposium
March 20 2012
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OUTLINE
• Examples of success
• Lessons learned
• A way forward
• Questions?
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There has been notable Success
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Control of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus)
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Sea lamprey invasion in 1920s triggered collapse of the Great Lakes fisheries…
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Early focus on barriers/ removal fails
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Vern Applegate: Back to basics
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Herculean search for a ‘larvicide’ (targeting)
• 6000+ compounds tested
• 3-trifluoromethyl-4-nitrophenol (TFM )
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Deployment of TFM + allies
$1.5 million for treatments each year
$3 million assessment
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Alternative control and IPM…
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Success!? • 90%+ reduction in lamprey • Recovery of many fishes
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•Lake Sorell 5310 ha
•Lake Crescent 2305 ha
Common carp in Tasmania, Australia
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Population Dynamics
Local
Population
Mortality
Immigration Emigration
Ecological
Damage ?
Reproduction
+ Recruitment
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1. Block emigration/immigration
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2. Remove adults en masse
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2b. Target females
(Judas fish)
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3. Block recruitment
(hot spots and pheromones)
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Lake Sorell
Total of 2734 carp
Lake Crescent
Total of 7797 carp removed Success
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Integrated Control of Common Carp, 2005-
Overarching goal:
To develop biologically and economically sound plans for controlling carp in MN lakes over the long term…
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Population Dynamics
Local
Population
Mortality
Immigration Emigration
Ecological
Damage ?
Reproduction
+ Recruitment
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Our Objectives
1. POPULATION SIZE: How many carp are there, and what level of damage do they do?
2. MOVEMENT: What is the typical rate of immigration/ emigration, and how might it be controlled?
3. ADULT MORTALITY: What is a typical mortality rate and how might it be enhanced?
4. JUVENILE RECRUITMENT: What is a typical recruitment rate, what controls it, and how might it be enhanced?
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1. How many carp? Methods: Very large scale summer and winter mark-recapture studies
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2. How/ where do carp move (immigrate/emigrate)?
Methods: Radiotelemetry
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Key results: Movement
1. Precise Spring movement
2. Summer spawning focused in wetlands
3. Winter aggregation
4. Little significant immigration
Bajer & Sorensen 2010. Biological Invasions
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3. Mortality rates? Methods: Survivorship of marked carp over time
Results: Low adult mortality (7%)
Bajer & Sorensen 2010. Biological Invasions
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4. Recruitment? Methods: Meticulous aging, trapping
Bajer & Sorensen 2010. Biological Invasions
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Example Results: Recruitment history in Lake Susan
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Why winter hypoxia?
Lakes that ‘winterkill’ have no predators
to eat carp eggs and larvae in spring
(similar to summer hypoxia in Australia?)
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Implementing IPM
1. Suppress recruitment (shallow lakes that winterkill) 2. Remove adults (deeper connected refuges) 3. Monitor and adapt
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1. Suppress recruitment by ‘rebalancing’ native fish communities by preventing hypoxia and managing in
shallows
Aerate
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2b. Remove adult carp in Lake Riley
94% population removed using Judas fish March 5, 2010
(Bajer, Chizinski & Sorensen (2011). Fish Ecology and Management)
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Success!
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Lessons learned
1. Have faith (every species has a weakness)!
2. Every species and water-body is different
3. Know your enemy really well
- Life history, physiology, population dynamics…*
- Understand its habits in local waters*
4. Multidisciplinary studies to develop multiple tools*
5. Need to be systematic yet imaginative*
6. Need Time (more than money)
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Other Academic
State Federal
Research
Invasive Species Research Center
To develop new, permanent solutions to aquatic invasive species
The U’s research center
DNR
Control Watershed Districts
The Public
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Center Objectives
1. To develop/ test new, reliable, useful monitoring programs
2. To develop new fish deterrence techniques
3. To develop new control techniques for local habitats
4. To develop new eradication techniques
5. To develop statistically sound strategies
6. To assist the DNR and others in the state with AIS
7. To work with, and enhance efforts of others.
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Funding Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District
Legislative Citizens Commission for Minnesota Resources
Ramsey Washington Metro Watershed District
Invasive-Animals Cooperative Research Centre (Australia)
National Science Foundation
USGS
GLFC
Sea Grant
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Questions?
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Lake
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Dutch 11 2088 122 13,312
(11,300 – 16,100) 402* (358)
Echo 13 929 72 8,167
(6,244-11,866) 471* (419)
Susan 11 361 15 4,459
(3,661-5,700) 338* (301)
Results: How Many
Bajer & Sorensen 2010 Biological Invasions
* Value is four times too high! (Bajer et al. 2008 Hydrobiologia)
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Confirming that native fish eat carp eggs
Results:
- carp eggs disappeared within 3 days, prior to hatch
- 1000’s of eggs found in bluegill sunfish stomachs
- no juvenile carp found in Lake Keller in summer
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CLEAR TURBID
Record clarity!
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‘Ecosystem engineer’
‘an organism that modifies, creates or destroys habitat and directly or indirectly modulates the availability of resources to other species, causing physical state changes in biotic or abiotic materials.’
Jones et al. 1994 Oikos
Aquatic invasives that function in this manner will alter
water chemistry and quality (WQ)
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Carp exclusion zone in
Lake Wingra, WI
No Carp (or waves)
Carp
Invasive common carp, ecological engineering
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Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS): A big threat to MN aquatic habitat and water quality
Mississippi River (140 species) • 18 plants • 3 microorganisms • 4 crustaceans • 5 molluscks • 15 fishes • 1 mammals
WHY? - Inter-connectiveness - Trade - Recreation
Great Lakes Basin (180 species)
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1870s: Common carp (Cyprinus carpio)
• 1870s: Stocked by US Fish Commission
• Eurasian river fish
• Roots in bottom- liberating plants, sediments
• Destroys water quality and waterfowl habitat
• 1000s of lakes, 100,000s of acres destroyed
- Control being developed (later)
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CARP FEEDING: Ecosystem Engineers
Bluegreen Algae
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i. Uprooting plants (cover- zooplankton, fish) -
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iii. Releasing nutrients from sediments
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iv. Releasing nutrients
Loss of cover- zooplankton
Shading
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2000: Asian carps (Hypopthalmichthys sp.)
• Introduced for aquaculture
• Chinese river fish
• Planktivorous, feed in open water
• Destroys habitat, human activities
• Moving up the Mississippi
• No practical means of measuring or controlling
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Asian carp are Ecosystem Engineers Situation (foodweb) specific:
Complex effects :
1. Decrease in plankton
- Blooms tiny plankton (BG)
Microystsis sp.
- Increased water clarity
2. Increase in benthic nutrients
3. Decrease in O2
4, Decrease in condition of native
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Next: Snakehead (Channa argus)
• Introduced by citizens
• China
• Vicious predators
• Destroys game-fish populations
• No practical means of sampling or controlling
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1980s Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha)
• 1988: Ballast water in Great Lakes
• Caspian Sea
• Filter-feeders, disrupt foodwebs, increase water clarity
• Greatly alters waterways, clogs pipes
• Spreading rapidly in MN
• No practical means of measuring or controlling
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Quaga mussel (Dreissena rostriformis)
• 1988: Ballast water in Great Lakes
• Caspian Sea
• Filter-feeders,
• Greatly alters foodwebs, clogs pipes
• No practical means of measuring or controlling
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Veneroidea: Ecosystem engineers
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Zebra mussels and Water Quality
Strayer et al. 1999. Bioscience
Situation and foodweb specific
Complex
- Increase in benthic N and P
- Decrease in benthic O2-
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- Increase in toxins and heavy
metals
- Increase in certain bluegreens
Microcystis sp.
- Increased clarity
1 micron particles filtered!
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1870s: Curly Pondweed (Potamogeton crispus)
• 1870s: Stocked with carp
• Eurasia
• Heavy vegetative mats, releases nutrients with summer die-off
• Destroys waterfowl habitat
• Few control measures, not practical
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Lessons from failed MN experiments
• We can expect a continuous stream of invaders This is a war (not a battle—no time to lose)
• These species are going to do a lot of damage, the damage is complex and broad (ecosystem-wide), and includes water quality The stakes are very high
• These species are fundamentally different from native species
Conventional approaches to control them do NOT work
• Aquatic environments are especially difficult to work in You cannot even see what you are working with!
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Integrated Control of Common Carp, 2005-
Overarching goal:
To develop biologically and economically sound plans for controlling carp in MN lakes over the long term…
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The way forward…
1. Prevent introduction
2. Delay invasion
3a. Reduce numbers 3b. Control - poisons - genetic engineering - disease - ecosystem management 4. Eradicate
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1. To develop new, reliable, and useful molecular tests and monitoring programs
• Develop superior tests for species of immediate local concern
- Common carp, silver carp, zebra mussel
- eDNA, pheromones, other
• Quickly validate these tests
• Interpret these tests
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2. To develop new deterrence techniques
• New, affordable barrier systems optimized for local species - Common carp, silver carp
- Bubble curtains, light, velocity w and w/o barrier
large rivers (ex. Minnesota River)
tributaries (ex. creeks leading into Minnesota)
• Evaluate efficiency of these systems (SAFL) Barrier Results - Downstream
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Experimental Air Barrier (Maplewood)
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3. To develop new control techniques
3a. Zebra mussel physiology, biology and control 3b. Invasive fish ecology and control 3c. Invasive fish behavior and physiology 3d. Invasive plants
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• Search for Achilles heel
• New faculty expertise
• Cutting-edge advice and help for DNR
3a. Zebra mussel physiology, biology and control
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• Integrated pest management:
• Search for natural controls for Asian carp
• Further development/ application of common carp strategy
• New faculty expertise
• Expert advise and help for DNR, watershed districts, lake associations
3b. Invasive fish ecology and control
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• Integrated pest management:
• Search for behavioral attracts and repellents for Asian and common carp
• Judas fish and robotic tracking
• Further development and application of common carp
• Cutting-edge advise and help for DNR
3c. Invasive fish behavior, physiology and control
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• Integrated Pest Management
• Search for predators and control
• Further development and application of IPM control plants
• Cutting-edge advise and help for DNR
3d. Invasive plant control
Eurasian Watermilfoil
Milfoil Weevil (Euhrychiopsis lecontei)
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4. Develop eradication techniques
• Search for species-specific viruses via international networks
• New faculty and facility (Vet School)
• Protection from exotic viruses
• Expert advise and help for DNR
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5. Perfect sampling and treatment protocols
• Perfect application protocols through statistics
• Expert advice and help for DNR
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5. Information and technology transfer
• New position and expertise
• Transfer and testing of new expertise
• Expert advise and help for watershed districts, lakeshore associations, DNR, etc.
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Budget
Startup $2,000,000 (new labs, equipment and refurbishing)
Operations ($1,990,000/yr x 8)
1.Monitoring $294,000
2.Deterrence $258,000
3.Control $940,000
4.Eradication $290,000
5.Statistical guidance $77,000
6.Extension $129,000
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Carp vs Submerged Plants
y = 67.309e-0.007x R² = 0.8242
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Options for Sustainable Control
1. Do nothing (and hope it goes away) 2. Commercialize removal 3. Poison 4. Augment native predators 5. Large scale, non-targeted removal
6. Targeted removal 7. Spawning sabotage (eggs or sterile male) 8. Targeted biocides 9. Augment native pathogens
10. Introduce exotic parasites (classical bio-control) 11. Introduce exotic predator 12. Genetic manipulation of pest 13. Introduce exotic diseases 14. Introduce genetically modified predator 15. Introduce genetically engineered diseases
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Invasive Animals
Cooperative Research
Centre (IA CRC)
Organisational Structure
• Partnership of around 40 Australian and international
natural resource management agencies, universities,
research organisations and industry stakeholders.
• Core funding from Australian Federal Government with
cash and in-kind contributions from partners
• Exploring genetic and pathogen control of aquatic
invasives with a 10 year horizon and $40,000,000
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1900’s: Eurasian Milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum)
- Aquarium trade
- Europe
- Destroys shallow ecosystems/habitat
- Can be controlled with poison/cutting
BUT $100,000/lake per year to control
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Water clarity 2011 Season and lake effects:
• Springtime clarity was good to very good (Riley and Susan) in all lakes except Staring
• Summertime clarity was poor in all lakes except Ann
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1990s: Pterois volitans
1990s appeared in the Caribbean
Indo-Pacific teleost fish
Voracious and poisonous predators
Aquarium fish?
Spreading rapidly:
Bahamas to North Carolina
Fishing Derbies
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Invasive Species an alien [nonnative / exotic / introduced] species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health
(Executive Order 13112)