Workers at Fairmount Water Works Mussel Hatchery agitate the water to ensure that mussel larvae are taken into the gills of the host fish. Scientists gathered around blue buckets filled with water and ...

In September the S.C. Department of Natural Resources released into the wild on U.S. Forest Service property the first group of Carolina Heelsplitters raised by agency biologists. These rare ...

New Zealand aquaculture will be getting stronger mussels, thanks to some heavyweight Kiwi science underway in Nelson. A new hatchery and lab facility is opening today (02/04) just north of the city at ...

In Philadelphia, a small team of scientists is proving that one of nature's quietest creatures may hold the key to cleaner, healthier waterways, reported Philadelphia magazine. Led by the Philadelphia ...

The S.C. Department of Natural Resources released into the wild on U.S. Forest Service property the first group of Carolina heelsplitters raised by agency biologists. These rare freshwater mussels are ...

Stocking the state’s waters with protected mussel species is a new conservation strategy from the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. This fall, the state released thousands of mussels grown in ...

They sound painful, but bivalves known as Carolina Heelsplitters in Lancaster County streams could put developers in a pinch unless the mussels are able to grow. Both the state and county have new ...

Carissa Maurin has heard from people for a long time that blue mussels in Casco Bay had vanished. "The mussel beds have been either disappearing or they haven't been able to find mussels where they ...

The 60-acre area will soon have an education pavilion to capstone the interpretive trail system created by Friends of Fairport Fish Hatchery. The hatchery has been on the banks of the Mississippi ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Treatment is now flowing into the mid-Snake River to kill off invasive quagga mussels that could cause a potential crisis - but that treatment is also likely to kill other things ...