SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Utah Department of Natural Resources officers and other partnering agencies continue their battle against invasive species in Utah waters.

This year the different agencies inspected 288,554 boats and performed 6,509 decontaminations since Jan. 1. They reported 51,337 boat inspections and 1,886 of the decontaminations took place at stations in the Lake Powell area.

Their primary focus of the inspections was to prevent the spread of quagga mussels and other aquatic invasive species — including Eurasian watermilfoil — from Lake Powell and from infested reservoirs outside the state to other waterbodies in Utah.

DWR reported that Lake Powell is currently the only Utah waterbody infested with invasive quagga mussels.

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