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Pretty much, they aren't mobile and breed asexually and fairly rapidly - and also currently don't have a natural control in NZ. Spat are tiny too... They can totally change the food source and water quality profiles, out competing native shellfish and removing algae and what other native species need through sheer weight of numbers so not ideal...
but wont trout hoover them up? they eat the small freshwater mussels.....
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