Inside is about 3 inches of icy-blue glass. The team said the blue color comes from the high copper content of Lake Michigan; had they sourced the mussels from Lake Superior, it might be a totally ...

In 2009, the roughly 33 fishermen licensed to use draggers on wild mussel beds landed 14.7 million pounds of blue mussels worth $1.2 million, ...

One of the most amazing intertidal inhabitants is the blue mussel. To me, these bivalves (bivalves are mollusks with two shells connected by a hinge) are heroes of the intertidal. They have a ...

Blue mussels like colder water and “start to struggle and even die at water temperatures near 80F,” Borkman wrote. “Much of the Bay, especially shallow areas where people might harvest from ...

It's not because the mussels here aren't edible, despite what some people think. It's because we have the "wrong" kind. Blue mussels – often from Prince Edward Island in Canada, or Maine – are ...

Blue mussels like colder water and “start to struggle and even die at water temperatures near 80F,” Borkman wrote. “Much of the Bay, especially shallow areas where people might harvest from ...