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.

One of the oldest cliches in fishing is that lures and flies have to catch fishermen before they catch fish. It is, however, an extremely accurate cliché. Once you take those crankbaits to the ...

Sep. 3—BISMARCK — The North Dakota Game and Fish Department has confirmed the presence of invasive zebra mussels in South Golden Lake, Steele County, after detecting zebra mussel veligers in routine ...

Trevor Starks stands in the Neosho River holding a rare mussel. He’s smiling because this find is his first evidence that the mussel, a Neosho mucket, is surviving here eight months after he and other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the early 1900s, closer to a time when Kentucky was an unspoiled Eden, jewel-like freshwater mussels paved the beds of the ...

Workers at Fairmount Water Works Mussel Hatchery agitate the water to ensure that mussel larvae are taken into the gills of the host fish. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the salamander mussel as an endangered species. A species of freshwater mussel found in pockets of the Allegheny River might soon be protected ...

COLUMBUS, Ga.— Following a decade of advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to list the southern elktoe mussel as endangered. The Service ...

The Niagara River is a powerful force in Western New York, helping to supply electricity to areas throughout the entire state — and the fate of its water quality relies heavily on fish and their ...