Federal officials say two species of freshwater mussels that live in southwest Missouri and are considered indicators of water quality will soon be placed under federal protection.
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 ...
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 ...
According to the BBC, routine surveys recently uncovered quagga mussels in Lower Lough Erne, with DNA analysis confirming the ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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