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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOHO, Manhattan (PIX11) — A store in Manhattan lets you buy a mussel and then make jewelry out of the pearls that come from it. Pearl & The Beast is located at 22 Howard St. Basement in SoHo. It has ...

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 ...

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, ...

Once widespread, they are now found in very few catchments. Ireland is believed to have almost half of Europe’s pearl mussel population, with the Blackwater catchment accounting for a sizeable portion ...

If you want pearl jewelry from this Soho shop, you’re going to have to use some mussel. At Pearl & the Beast, shoppers can go fishing for mussels and shuck them open themselves for shiny pearls to ...

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, ...