Ecologist Jonathan Young steered his rowboat alongside a rectangular container that was floating between two bright orange buoys. He reached under a plastic mesh covering and pulled out a large black ...

MONTEVIDEO -- As far back as the turn of the century, there were "clammers" who dug freshwater mussels in the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers in search of pearls. Bernard Sietman prepares to submerge ...

If you want pearl jewelry from this Soho shop, you’re going to have to use some mussel. At Pearl & the Beast, shoppers can go fishing for mussels and shuck them open themselves for shiny pearls to ...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reintroduced a native species of mussels to rivers in southeast Wyoming this summer after finding none in the state during recent surveys. The plain pocketbook ...