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 ...

Irish farmers have joined forces with scientists in a bid to prevent the freshwater pearl mussel - one of Ireland's oldest and rarest animals - from going extinct. Fossil records show that the ...

Critically endangered freshwater pearl mussels have been discovered living in two Scottish lochs. Scientists said the protected species, which is vulnerable to pollution and poaching, had previously ...

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 ...

Freshwater pearl mussels are found in rivers in Japan. They are in severe decline, however, and are on the endangered Red List designated by the Ministry of the Environment. Freshwater pearl mussels ...

A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is ...

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 ...

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 ...