One of the challenges that we find with restoring native mussels is that we don't know where they go and they're really hard ...

Federal regulators designated two U.S. freshwater mussels as threatened on Wednesday, a further sign of trouble for native mollusks that help cleanse waters by filtering out pollutants as they feed.

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Most Americans know mussels as thumb-sized shellfish that occasionally adorn restaurant dinner plates. But a colony of mussels as big as the dinner plates themselves has ...

An invasive species never before documented in the United States was eradicated throughout summer and fall of this year. The Chinese pond mussels were discovered in the ponds of a former fish farm in ...

The Northwest’s freshwater mussels are in trouble, rapidly declining in almost every population biologists study. Take 2005, when biologists counted historic numbers of freshwater mussels in the North ...

The Niagara River is a powerful force in Western New York, helping to supply electricity to areas throughout the entire state — and the fate of its water quality relies heavily on fish and their ...

RARITAN TOWNSHIP – The invaders have been repelled. Thanks to the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, Chinese pond mussels, an invasive species that could wreak biological havoc in the environment, ...

WITH ONE EXPERT ON HOW DYING POPULATIONS COULD HURT THE BAY. REPORTER: CLEAN WATERS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY AND HERE AT THE INNER WATER -- WHEN -- INNER HARBOR, MEET THEM. FRESHWATER MUSSELS ARE IN ...

Last year I moved to an old farmhouse. One of the chief reasons we bought it was the land out back which included a little river meandering through the bottomland. I am still getting to know the land, ...

KODAK, Tenn. (WATE) — A new festival is coming to East Tennessee to celebrate one of the biggest supporters of river habitat health. Tennessee River Watershed Mussel Fest is set for May 17 from 10 a.m ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Federal regulators designated two U.S. freshwater mussels as threatened on Wednesday, a further sign of trouble for native mollusks that help cleanse waters by filtering ...

An invasive species never before documented in the United States was eradicated throughout summer and fall of this year. The Chinese pond mussels were discovered in the ponds of a former fish farm in ...