Question

To protect florida's waterways from harmful invasive aquatic plants you should always

Answer 1

In order to protect the waterways from invasive aquatic plants, you should always clean your boat and trailer from all aquatic plants, including small fragments, before leaving a waterway.

Thus, when the boat will be used in a waterway in Florida, no other species will be introduced from previously visited waterways.  

Answer 2

To protect Florida’s waterways from harmful invasive aquatic plants you should always

• Rinse your boat and trailer from all aquatic plants. Ensure you clean anything that came in contact with the water.  
• Always air-dry your boat and equipment. It is recommended that you dry for at least five days.
• Don’t drive your boat across the aquatic plants.  
• Always avoid chopping vegetation with outboard propeller.  
• Don’t release bait, either live or dead into the water.
• Never released aquatic plant from one water body to another

Further Explanation

Florida has spent millions of dollars to manage non aquatic plants introduced into the waterways. The invasive aquatic plants can affect the waterways negatively.  

Harmful Invasive aquatic plants can cause lot of harms to the environment and these include:

• It can increase the sedimentation of waterways.
• It can negatively affect the local economics
• It can reduces property values
• It can reduce lakefront aesthetics
• It can hinder the feeding of sport fish
• It can cause habitat destruction
• It can create navigation restrictions
• It can result in water flow restrictions, flooding
• It kills fish and affects their growth.
• It leads to loss of recreational opportunities

Hydrilla, water hyacinths, water lettuce are some of the invasive weed that are harmful to the environment.

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