ST. PAUL – The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is planning a pilot project set to launch this spring to determine best practices for minnow dealers who trap spottail shiners in lakes ...

Last month, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced that a major aquatic rehabilitation project was completed with high success. It was an experimental aquatic habitat ...

A nearly $1 million project to restore a reproducing population of freshwater mussels into the upper reaches of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River is scheduled to begin next year. A National ...

“Finding rare species like these mussels challenges us to be even more thoughtful about plans that take mussel habitat into consideration.” Beyond ecological value, the project will hopefully expand ...

Shelby Township — It took only minutes for one of the fatmucket mussels tucked into the Stony Creek streambed to nestle into its new home. The small creature cracked open its shell and extended a ...

EMILY, Minn. -- The Department of Natural Resources is starting to initiate pilot projects aimed at treating recently discovered, small infestations of zebra mussels on Minnesota lakes after success ...

Changes to the Gowanus Canal, part of a major cleanup project in the notoriously polluted waterway, are resulting in loss of mussel habitat. But community intervention could increase the Atlantic ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Anyone traveling along the Gallup Park Pathway in Ann Arbor may have noticed a team of scuba divers in the Huron River on Wednesday, May 31. What’s happening? The Michigan Department ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Local crews have wrapped up the mussel relocation project in the Grand River much earlier than expected, allowing the plan to restore the rapids to move forward. Before ...

CEDAR FALLS - The wind whipped over the water. Raindrops stung as they pelted the face. Rumbles of thunder could be heard in the distance. Though the conditions were anything but ideal, Tony Brady ...

With its green, hairy texture, it is a bizarre-looking growth that seafood firms treat as nothing more than waste. However, so-called mussel beards might just prove to be a lucrative avenue for ...