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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Philadelphia, a small team of scientists is proving that one of nature's quietest creatures may hold the key to cleaner, healthier waterways, reported Philadelphia magazine. Led by the Philadelphia ...

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 ...

MERIDEAN - Michelle Bartsch and Megan Bradley stood on the banks of the Chippewa River, holding onto precious cargo. Enclosed in the containers in their hands on a recent June day were 3,500 juvenile ...

Carissa Maurin has heard from people for a long time that blue mussels in Casco Bay had vanished. "The mussel beds have been either disappearing or they haven't been able to find mussels where they ...