1. A invasive species
By Maddie

2.  What is the Fishhook Flea?
 Aquatic Invader
 1 cm. 80% tail
 Crustation
 Hooked Spiny Tail
 Almost clear
 Head is mostly only its eye
 Latin name is Cercpagis Pengoi

3. Where did This Organism come
from?
Avoz
Sea
Caspian
Sea
Aral Sea
Europe

4. How Did The Fishhook Flea Get
Here?
•Ballast Water
•Hooks onto Fishing Equipment
•Arrived in 1998

5. Damage to Native Plants and
Animals
•Eats and competes with native zooplankton
•Small Fish can’t digest it because of spiny tail
•Not as nutritious as zooplankton
•Might push zooplankton to extinction
•Little Fish Die than big fish die it goes all the way up the food
chain

6. Economic Impact
•Clogs Fishing Equipment
•Makes Trouble for multi-billion dollar fishing industries

7. What Can You Do About The Fishhook Flea?
•No way to fully stop the Fishhook Flea
•Wash all fishing equipment before going to a new
lake.
•4 steps: Inspect, Drain, Empty, Wash/Dry.
•Wash off clothes

8. What I Think About The Fishhook Flea.
I Think The Fishhook flea is a big problem.
What scares me most is that we can’t fully stop it.
Thousands of ships empty bilge water into the
Great Lakes every season.
Guess What? The Fishhook Flea is in The world’s
100 Worst invasive species!!

9. Bibliography
• Aquatic Nuisance species Alert
• What is it?
• http://ohioseagrant.osu.edu/_documents/publications/FS/FS
083%20Aquatic%20nuisance%20species%20alert%20Cerc
opagis%20pengoi.pdf March,2013
• Minnesota Sea Grant
• What are the impacts
• http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/exotics/fishhook.htm
March,2013
• Nab The Aquatic Invader
• Great Lakes Region
• http://www.iiseagrant.org/NabInvader/Lakes/admin/biodiver.h
tml March,2013
• Life
• Pictures
• http://images.google.com/hosted/life March,2013