Reuben Cash says blue mussels are best served steamed with melted butter. But this year, he doubts you could find enough for a meal. Cash is the environmental coordinator at the Skagway Traditional ...

There's an apparent disconnect when it comes to mussels in Rhode Island. They're found on the menu of just about every fine restaurant. But hardly anyone harvests them from Narragansett Bay. It's not ...

Mussels could be the perfect 'sentinel' species to signal the health of coastal ecosystems. But a new study of blue mussels in estuary ecosystems along 600 kilometers of coastline in the Northeast ...

My neighbor’s brother lives along the coast in Ipswich, Massachusetts. All of his life he has gathered oysters, clams and mussels from the mudflats and rocky shoreline near his house. He had noticed ...

During the last 10-15 years, blue mussels in shallow waters on Sweden’s west coast have largely disappeared. Observations and reviews of studies and reports indicate that climate change may be behind ...

Since its arrival in the 1980s, the Asian shore crab has become one of the most dominant crab species in New England. But the area's native blue mussel has evolved to develop a defense against it -- ...

Rebuilding mussel beds and marshes offer natural protection and clean the water. After the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy, New York City looks for ways to protect the metropolis from future ...

The recent graduate is the lead author of a study investigating how blue mussels could fare under the stresses of climate change. Martino's findings appear in the December edition of Journal of ...

We studied size-selective predation by Common Eiders (Somateria mollissima) feeding on blue mussels (Mytilus edulis). Selection varied with location, season, and prey availability, and for the most ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract ABSTRACT: Green crabs Carcinus maenas were introduced to North America in the early 1800s and breeding populations were subsequently ...