Freshwater mussels function as nature’s water treatment plants. Each animal can filter up to 600 gallons of water per month. And when working together, they can dramatically clean the water of the ...

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 ...

ROME, N.Y. -- The recent discovery of tiny, invasive zebra mussels earlier this month at the state’s Rome Fish Hatchery in Oneida County has created a giant headache for the state Department of ...

They've already caused operators of dams and hydroelectric plants on the lower Colorado River system to brace for millions of dollars in maintenance and repair costs. And they've frustrated boaters in ...

Freshwater mussels once thrived in rivers, streams and lakes across Pennsylvania. They provided a natural filter, cleaning up muddy water and allowing more sunlight into the waterways, which in turn ...

When most people think of what’s swimming at the Waterville hatchery, they might think of walleye, northern pike and muskies, but growing in baskets in the hatchery’s ponds are thousands of freshwater ...

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 ...

Megan Bradley, mussel biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, holds mussel specimens July 24 in a mobile laboratory near Victory, Wis. Bradley works at the nearby Genoa National Fish Hatchery ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced in late January, invasive zebra mussels were discovered in Delta Lake, which serves as DEC's Rome Fish Hatchery water supply. The ...

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 ...

DOLGELLAU, Wales, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Endangered freshwater mussels appear to be doing well at a hatchery in Wales, sparking hopes that they have a future in the rivers of Britain. Seventy pearl mussels ...