Biologists are racing to save America’s freshwater mussels—the water-filtering keystone species that once filled the ...

There’s a new aquatic invasive species on the watch-list for boaters looking to enter Montana waterways this year. Montana ...

STARTING TODAY, A NEW BOAT LAUNCH RESTRICTIONS GO INTO EFFECT AT JENKINSON LAKE IN EL DORADO COUNTY. IT’S ALL PART OF AN EXPANDING EFFORT TO KEEP THE INVASIVE GOLDEN MUSSELS FROM FINDING ITS WAY INTO ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the salamander mussel as an endangered species. A species of freshwater mussel found in pockets of the Allegheny River might soon be protected ...

RANCHO SECO – Before you go in the water at Rancho Seco Lake, you need to let a dog sniff your boat. This is all part of the fight against the invasive golden mussel that has been detected in several ...

In Massachusetts, common blue mussels may not have the star power of Wellfleet oysters or the charisma of quahogs. But like all shellfish they play an important role in marine ecosystems. Mussels are ...

Annalee Tweitmann stood ankle deep in mud, hands wet with mud, peering at a steep riverbank of mud. Mud comes with the job, she said, and she's fine with that. Because mud is where the mussels are.

On many coastlines around the world, piles of discarded oyster and mussel shells are a common sight—the leftovers of a global ...

Emily Longman (left) and lab technician Sarah Merolla (right) preparing to sample the mussel bed community at Dillon Beach, California. Credit: Eric Sanford, UC Davis A mussel bed along Northern ...