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The Idaho State Department of Agriculture recently announced that mandatory watercraft inspection stations will begin opening in Idaho immediately. The first station to open in the state will be westbound on Interstate 90 near the town of Wallace. Stations on Idaho’s southern border also will open early in the season this year. Additional stations will be opening statewide throughout the boating season. The stations will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m., seven days a week.
Boaters should expect inspections! Quagga and zebra mussels do not occur in Idaho, and this program is preventative. All boaters must stop at the stations. Watercraft inspectors will be looking for high-risk boats that have been in quagga mussel- and zebra mussel-impacted states. Here’s ISDA’s Matt Voile discussing high risk boats: “High-risk bolts because they’ve been sitting tied to a dock or moored in Lake Mead or Havasu or some other part of the Colorado River system.”
