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 ...

The Mussel PCR Lab involves identifying native and non-native saltwater mussel species using genomic techniques. Students will investigate: How can we distinguish between invasive and local mussels ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife deploys divers to check for highly invasive quagga mussels on the bottom of boats in Lake Powell, Arizona in 2013. (Kim Martin/U.S. Fish and Wildlife) Officials in Idaho say ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Water managers and state wildlife officials last year hoped the discovery of a microscopic zebra mussel larva in the Colorado River was a one-time event, not ...

PHILADELPHIA – Water tanks line a room in this city’s Water Works on the bank of the Schuylkill River. Inside are small fish that are hosts to tiny organisms that researchers in the nation’s sixth ...

“Feeding time,” says Shannon Boyle, pushing back her chair and pulling her attention away from the microscope she’s been bent over for the better part of an hour. She’s counting freshwater mussel ...

SPANNING 1100 SQUARE MILES, THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA IS THE HUB OF THE STATE’S WATER SUPPLY. AT THE SKINNER FISH FACILITY NEAR BYRON. A LOT OF PEOPLE DEPEND ON THIS WATER. WATER FOR 27 MILLION ...

Mikayla Bayto, an aquatic biologist with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, lifts a mussel out of the Allegheny River. At a small boat ramp off the Allegheny River near Parker ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Officials in Idaho are trying to keep quagga mussels like these mussels found in Lake Mead, Nevada, from taking over the Snake ...

Originally published Oct. 17 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.Officials in Idaho say they are seeing fewer quagga mussel larvae and fewer dead fish compared to last year as they finish the second week of ...