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Farmers grow all kinds of seafood such as fish, shrimp, and oysters. That may sound funny but it is a method called “aquaculture.” Aquaculture happens in ponds, rivers, bays, and the ocean.
Farmers also grow a type of shellfish called “mussels.” You may have seen mussels growing from a pier, jetty, or dock. Their black shell is hard and, in the wild, they grow in clusters. Mussels are easy to farm and great to eat.
They also help clean the water. Mussels are filter-feeders, which means that they feed by collecting tiny organisms from the water. So they clean and filter the water as they eat.
Fishermen from Rhode Island to Maine are beginning to farm mussels in socks in the ocean. First, they collect baby mussel seed on ropes near the shore. The seed goes into a sock around a long rope. On the water, the sock with the rope is connected to buoys, dropped into the water, and left to grow in the ocean for at least a year. After one year, juicy mussels are bursting through the socks. They are collected, packed on ice, and brought back to shore to sell.
A small farm with 12 long lines can produce up to 180,000 pounds of mussels each year. Farming mussels on rafts and on the bottom is hard work, muddy, and messy. But it can be fun, too. Right now, in the United States, mussel farming is catching on among fishermen and farmers. It’s helping provide the seafood we need in a healthy and sustainable manner.
Fishing for mussels is one of the last wild shellfish fisheries on Cape Cod. Local fishermen often supplement winter income by harvesting shellfish in the wild, but many ply this trade year-round, supplying markets and restaurants on the Cape and beyond. Today I decide to fish with mussels and had a great success with them. Landed about 7 fishes and one of them was a Walleye Surf Perch. Another angler fishing. For fly-fishing, try a 9- to 11-ft rod, rated for a 6- to 8-weight line, with matching reel. Use a sinktip or shooting head lines. Stripping baskets help manage line in the surf. For light bait fishing or when using Carolina rigged grubs, try a 7- to 9-ft rod, with either a spinning or bait casting reel. Use 6- to 12-lb test line that can. By I Sea Food and Eat It. Saffron-Scented Lobster Paella Rating: Unrated 12 This is an authentic dish from Spain, the exotic flavors will burst in your mouth.
| Mytilidae | |
|---|---|
| Two shells of Mytilus edulis washed up on a beach | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Mytilida |
| Superfamily: | Mytiloidea |
| Family: | Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815 |
| Genera | |
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Mytilidae are a family of small to large saltwater mussels, marinebivalvemolluscs in the orderMytilida. One of the genera, Limnoperna, inhabits brackish or freshwater environments. The order has only this one family which contains some 52 genera.[1]
Species in the family Mytilidae are found worldwide, but they are more abundant in colder seas, where they often form uninterrupted beds on rocky shores in the intertidal zone and the shallow subtidal. The subfamily Bathymodiolinae is found in deep-sea habitats.
Mytilids include the well-known edible sea mussels.
A common feature of the shells of mussels is an asymmetrical shell which has a thick, adherent periostracum. The animals attach themselves to a solid substrate using a byssus.
A 2020 study of the phylogeny of Mytilidae recovered two main clades derived from an epifaunal ancestor, with subsequent lineages shifting to other lifestyles, and correlating convergent evolution of siphon traits.[2]
Genera[edit]
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Genera within the family Mytilidae include:[1]
- Adipicola Dautzenberg, 1927
- AdulaH. Adams & A. Adams, 1857
- Amygdalum Megerle von Muhlfeld, 1811
- Arcuatula Jousseaume in Lamy, 1919 (incl. Musculista)
- Arenifodiens Wilson, 2006
- Arvella Bartsch, 1960
- AulacomyaMörch, 1853
- Bathymodiolus Kenk & Wilson, 1985
- Benthomodiolus Dell, 1987
- Botula Mörch, 1853
- BrachidontesSwainson, 1840
- Choromytilus Soot-Ryen, 1952
- Crenella T. Brown, 1827
- Crenomytilus Soot-Ryen, 1955
- Dacrydium Torell, 1859
- Exosiperna Iredale, 1929
- Fungiacava T. F. Goreau, N. I. Goreau, Neumann & Yonge, 1968
- Geukensia Van de Poel, 1959
- Gibbomodiola Sacco, 1898
- Gigantidas Cosel & Marshall, 2003
- GregariellaMonterosato, 1884
- Idas Jeffreys, 1876
- IdasolaIredale, 1939
- IschadiumJukes-Browne, 1905
- Jolya Bourguignat, 1877
- LimnopernaRochebrune, 1882
- LioberusDall, 1898
- LithophagaRöding, 1798
- Megacrenella Habe & Ito, 1965
- Modiolatus Jousseaume, 1893
- Modiolula Sacco, 1898
- Modiolarca Gray, 1842
- ModiolusLamarck, 1799
- MusculusRöding, 1798
- Mytella Soot-Ryen, 1955
- MytilasterMonterosato, 1884
- MytilusLinnaeus, 1758; includes most edible mussel species
- Perna Philipsson, 1788 - incl. New Zealand green-lipped mussel
- Perumytilus Olsson, 1961
- RhomboidellaMonterosato, 1884
- Semimytilus Soot-Ryen, 1955
- Septifer Recluz, 1848
- Sinomytilus Thiele, 1934
- SolamenIredale, 1924
- Stavelia Gray, 1858
- Tamu Gustafson, Turner, Lutz & Vrijenhoek, 1998
- Trichomya Ihering, 1900
- Urumella Hayami & Kase, 1993
- Vilasina Bartsch, 1960
- Vulcanidas Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2010
- Xenostrobus Wilson, 1967
- Zelithophaga Finlay, 1926
References[edit]
- ^ abBouchet, P. (2014).Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815World Register of Marine Species
- ^Audino, Jorge A.; Serb, Jeanne M.; Marian, José Eduardo A. R. (2020). 'Phylogeny and anatomy of marine mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) reveal convergent evolution of siphon traits'. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 190 (2): 592–612. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa011.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Mytilidae at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Mytilidae at Wikispecies
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