mussel
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Supriyanto, 32, is a green mussel trader and once bought from local fishermen who harvested the shellfish offshore.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
On Wednesday, they served a mussel dish with garlic confit and serrano chili developed by his breakfast sous chef.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
The amphipod was discovered at a depth of 2,602 meters in a mussel bed within the Galápagos Rift hydrothermal vent fields.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
The group was especially pleased to learn that sea robins were so effective at covering up filtered mussel extract, even down to single amino acids.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2024
I'd feel my way along his driftwood stobs, find the hole, piy a mussel loose, and then fish.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
She said they eat a mixture of food such as clams and mussels and crustaceans, so there would plenty of food around the Scottish coast.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Instead, it has proven to be about Appalachian springsnails—and a few other rare or endangered species, including freshwater mussels, fish, and crustaceans.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026
Hutchings uses scallops, large shrimp and fish fillets, but other options like oysters, lobster tails, crabs, mussels and clams are perfectly acceptable.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2026
They say the mussels have disappeared because of the plant's wastewater.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
I collected almost a peck of mussels in very little time at all, and began tying them in my sweater to carry them back to camp.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
