Waingerlab - Review. TheActualandPotentialEconomicImpactofInvasiveSpeciesintheAdirondacksFINAL110414.pdf. $0.5 million or $75 million: pay now or pay later - Northwest Region - Battlefords News-Optimist. Saskatchewan's western neighbour estimates the annual cost to municipal, agricultural and industrial infrastructure could easily be $75 million if quagga and zebra mussels invade Alberta's lakes, rivers and irrigation canals. In 2014, the Alberta government invested over $500,000 in an ongoing effort to stop that invasion. Saskatchewan's eastern neighbour is already playing catch-up, investing approximately the same amount in 2014 in a failed attempt to treat portions of Lake Winnipeg where zebra mussels were first identified as having reached Manitoba in 2013.
The looming economic threat posed by invasive mussels to Saskatchewan is at least as high as for our provincial neighbours, and the numbers don't even come close to including the threat to the ecology of prized fishing and recreational lakes. The University of Windsor's Dr. Hugh MacIsaac likely knows more about the national implications of these invaders than anyone else in Canada and the United States. Waingerlab Invasive Plant Impacts Review. Nature Valuation Network. Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center - SEDAC.
USDA - Invasive Species Management: Program of Research on the Economics of Invasive Species Management (PREISM) Economic Impacts.