Fish Lend Muscle to Help Mussels

Summary


M IDDLE-AGED mussels were given a helping hand as thousands of fish were freed into a Northumberland river.

Environment Agency officers released 11,000 sea trout at the top of the River Rede. The fish were carrying microscopic freshwater pearl mussel larvae, each of which is around a tenth of a millimetre in size.

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Fish Lend Muscle to Help Mussels

It was the fruition of the agency's matchmaking efforts in assembling Tyne mussels in an artificial stre...

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