Over the past 50 years, global aquaculture, including fish, mussel and seaweed farms, has grown dramatically. Almost half of the world's wild-caught fish is used to produce fishmeal and oils that feed ...

There are many kinds of mussels, both freshwater and saltwater, but the variety that is most likely to land on your plate is the blue mussel. Also known as edible mussels, these creatures live in ...

Survival of the fittest is expertly exemplified by one marine creature: Minnesota’s freshwater mussels. These shellfish are ...

Across the Gulf of Maine, wild blue mussels are on the move, and on the decline. A 2017 study found that as the gulf’s waters have drastically warmed in the past 40 years, the population of wild ...

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 ...

Play Live Radio Next Up: 0:00. 0:00. ... A 2016 study estimated blue mussel populations in the intertidal zone between high and low tides declined more than 60% in the last 40 years.

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 ...