Moreover, the protective effect of glochidia infestation against bacterial disease sustained several months after the larvae had dropped off from the gills of fish. The higher the number of pearl ...

A mussel has been captured on video flapping its mantle in an attempt to lure a fish to involuntarily serve as a host for its larvae. The short clip, which was posted online by the West Virginia ...

Wild Bulletin, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife: DNR’s nongame aquatic biologists are in the middle of a multi-year effort to restore snuffbox mussel populations in the ...

When you think about Western North Carolina’s wildlife, you probably picture black bears, deer, or even hellbenders. But ...

At a glance, mussels seem uninteresting. Freshwater mussels — clams — look like rocks, and they lie partly buried in streambeds, out of sight and out of mind. Yet these aquatic paperweights have one ...

As anglers cast lures into Minnesota’s lakes and rivers this time of year, native mussels lurking on the bottoms of those water bodies are also luring fish — with a surprising bait-and-switch move.

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 ...

Each year, for almost 20 years, the Corps of Engineers and other resource agencies on the Upper Mississippi River take a day and clean native mussels free from zebra mussels. No, they do not use scrub ...

Researchers have found trout carrying hundreds of young freshwater pearl mussel larvae in their gills in rivers in Sutherland. The microscopic young shellfish attach themselves to trout and salmon as ...

Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä found brown trout better survived a Flavobacterium disease outbreak if the fish had larvae of freshwater pearl mussel in their gills. In another study, ...