Alberta's Mussel Fight: New Rules & Fines

0:00Alberta's government is ramping up the fight against invasive muscles, bringing in more sniffer dogs, slapping hefty fines on boaters who skip checks, and making inspections mandatory, starting May 1st at border stations. These muscles are tough to kill once they take hold, potentially costing hundreds of millions in damage by clogging canals, reservoirs, and pipelines. Just one infested boat can unleash a million eggs into the water. Once worn, they strip lakes and rivers of nutrients, wreck food chains, hurt native fish, and reshape entire ecosystems while Alberta's muscle free. Zone with British Columbia and Saskatchewan is shrinking as neighbors get hit. Last year, crews checked nearly 22,000 boats and stopped 13 carrying the pests. Now they're opening a record 12 stations. Adding hotwash tech to zap them and expanding DNA water tests. It finds up to $4,200 for dodging inspections through September 30th, or $600 for forgetting

1:02drain. Pluggeds, the province aims to stay clean, like it has with rats since 1950. From your city, powered by AI, this is Canada News Today, I'm Corey with The Story.