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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mucket, fatmucket, and purple wartyback. Elktoe, giant floater, mapleleaf, fluted-shell, and pocketbook. In all, 204 animals and eight species, with an average age of about 8 years (maximum 15). I’d ...

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.

GENOA, Wis. - Federal and state aquatic biologists have labeled a building at the Genoa National Fish Hatchery "The Clam Palace." It could have been named "The House That Poachers Built." "Pam Thiel ...

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, ...