Na China, o impacto econômico do mexilhão-dourado também é significativo. Em projetos menores de transposição de água, com cerca de 100 km de extensão, os custos anuais de manutenção chegam a 1 milhão de dólares apenas para controle da espécie. No gigantesco Projeto Sul-Norte de Desvio de Água, com 1.400 km, a redução na eficiência da transferência hídrica causada pelo molusco representa perdas estimadas entre 15 e 40 milhões de dólares por ano. Pequenas hidrelétricas relatam prejuízos anuais de até 1 milhão de dólares.
@incollection{Boltovskoy2015,
abstract = {In China and South America, severe fouling problems caused by Limnoperna fortunei have been reported for a number of industrial facilities, including water and wastewater processing plants, power plants (nuclear, hydroelectric, thermal), refineries, steel mills, fish culture facilities, water transfer canals and aqueducts, and watercraft. In Japan, biofouling chiefly affects agricultural irrigation systems, balancing reservoirs and balancing tanks. However, most available reports furnish little detail on the components affected and on the measures taken to cope with the nuisance. Objective estimates of the economic losses involved are extremely rare. Although fouling by the golden mussel has occasionally derived in operation at below-standard regimes and even temporary plant shutoffs, as maintenance personnel acquired experience in curtailing mussel growth in sensitive areas, serious incidents have become less common. Fouling by L. fortunei has not caused a single definitive plant shutdown. Control methods assessed (either in laboratory settings or in actual plant operating conditions) include antifouling materials and coatings, chemical treatments, manual/mechanical cleaning, filtration, thermal shock, anoxia and hypoxia, desiccation, ozonation, ultraviolet treatment, electric currents, ultrasound, manipulations of flow speed, biological control, and various miscellaneous methods.},
author = {Boltovskoy, Demetrio and Xu, Mengzhen and Nakano, Daisuke},
booktitle = {Limnoperna Fortunei: The Ecology, Distribution and Control of a Swiftly Spreading Invasive Fouling Mussel},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-13494-9_21},
isbn = {9783319134949},
keywords = {Biofouling,Biological invasion,Golden mussel,Impact,Industrial plants,Limnoperna fortunei,Power plants},
mendeley-groups = {Golden Mussel},
month = {jan},
pages = {375--394},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
title = {{Impacts of Limnoperna fortunei on man-made structures and control strategies: General overview}},
year = {2015}
}
@incollection{Xu2015,
abstract = {The native range of Limnoperna fortunei is the Pearl River basin in China. From there, the mussel was transferred by ships during the 1960s-1970s to the estuaries of the rivers in the Fujiang and Zhejiang regions and the Yangtze River. After 1980, its range expanded to the Huaihe, Yellow, and Haihe River basins. In 1980, L. fortunei was found in Tianjin, a city on the Bohai Sea in northern China, most probably introduced by coastal shipping activities. At present, golden mussels are present in the middle reaches of the Yellow River basin and even further north, around Beijing. Due to the highland topography in western China, dispersion of L. fortunei in this area will not take place without anthropogenic facilitation. Golden mussels might potentially colonize the Liao River basin and the Inland River basin in Northeast China if the water temperature increases due to climate change.},
author = {Xu, Mengzhen},
booktitle = {Limnoperna Fortunei: The Ecology, Distribution and Control of a Swiftly Spreading Invasive Fouling Mussel},
doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-13494-9_17},
isbn = {9783319134949},
keywords = {Biological invasion,China,Geographic spread,Golden mussel,Limnoperna fortunei},
mendeley-groups = {Golden Mussel},
month = {jan},
pages = {313--320},
publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
title = {{Distribution and spread of Limnoperna fortunei in China}},
year = {2015}
}