ST. PAUL – The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is planning a pilot project set to launch this spring to determine best practices for minnow dealers who trap spottail shiners in lakes ...

A nearly $1 million project to restore a reproducing population of freshwater mussels into the upper reaches of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River is scheduled to begin next year. A National ...

MOLINE, Ill. — For two and a half months in 2016, wildlife crews relocated thousands of mussels that were in the direct impact zone of where the new I-74 bridge piers would eventually be built. "Our ...

“Finding rare species like these mussels challenges us to be even more thoughtful about plans that take mussel habitat into consideration.” Beyond ecological value, the project will hopefully expand ...

Shelby Township — It took only minutes for one of the fatmucket mussels tucked into the Stony Creek streambed to nestle into its new home. The small creature cracked open its shell and extended a ...

Changes to the Gowanus Canal, part of a major cleanup project in the notoriously polluted waterway, are resulting in loss of mussel habitat. But community intervention could increase the Atlantic ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Anyone traveling along the Gallup Park Pathway in Ann Arbor may have noticed a team of scuba divers in the Huron River on Wednesday, May 31. What’s happening? The Michigan Department ...

The long-awaited rehabilitation of the Tuxedo Bridge is set to begin this fall after an environmental study found no protected mussel species in the Caney River, clearing a major hurdle for the ...

Mussels clean the water from pollutants but all of those pollutants pass through their body. The threshold the mussels can ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Local crews have wrapped up the mussel relocation project in the Grand River much earlier than expected, allowing the plan to restore the rapids to move forward. Before ...

With its green, hairy texture, it is a bizarre-looking growth that seafood firms treat as nothing more than waste. However, so-called mussel beards might just prove to be a lucrative avenue for ...