Meet Krystal Chen, the 23-year-old owner and founder of Pearl & The Beast, the Soho jewelry store that specializes in fishing for mussels in exchange for pearls. If you want pearl jewelry from this ...

Mollusk researchers in the United States and China are collaborating to promote freshwater mussel conservation, develop more robust and productive pearl-producing Chinese mussels, and possibly ...

A multi-million pound reintroduction programme to help endangered pearl mussels has been hailed a success by a conservation organisation. Natural England invested £13m in targeted projects, including ...

Larvae of the freshwater pearl mussel can give protection against bacterial infection Glochidium larvae of the freshwater pearl mussel attach to salmon or trout gills, where they develop and grow for ...

One lucky man found himself a treasure while eating dinner at a local restaurant with his fiancée and others — on her birthday. Jimmy Lee was dining at a restaurant named The Quayside in Stourport, ...

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Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have found that the larvae of freshwater pearl mussel survive best in the original salmon fish population of their home river. The freshwater pearl ...

The Edinburgh jeweler Hamilton & Inches has created a 10-piece collection with the largest of the almost 200 freshwater ...

Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä found brown trout better survived a Flavobacterium disease outbreak if the fish had larvae of freshwater pearl mussel in their gills. In another study, ...