Didymo Study: Jackson River Invasive Species

OURSTREAMS went into the field on January 22nd 2009 with fisheries biologists, Paul Bugas from the VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries and Dawn Kirk from the US Forest Service. This short film documents an aquatic life study in the Upper James Basin on the Jackson River just below Lake Moomaw in Alleghany County, Virginia.


Didymo is an invasive diatom that has affected many inland waterway ecosystems.

If you go into the Jackson River, please make sure that you do not spread this highly contagious plant to any other rivers.

Maryland has Didymo 'Wader Wash Stations'. Here's how to disenfect.


Here's another video from Tasmania about Didymo: