Wednesday, July 1, 2020

USFWS Mountain-Prairie Region Flickr Update

Latest update from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Mountain-Prairie Region

USFWS Mountain-Prairie Region

07/01/2020 06:48 AM MDT

USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo:

Black sandshell mussel propagation

Black sandshell mussels have been extirpated from Nebraska. Recently Gavins Point NFH began an experiment aimed at developing a potential recovery program. Genoa NFH provided a female black sandshell mussel and the hatchery's aim was to see if flathead chubs (a local minnow species) would work as a host fish for the larval (glochidia) phase of the mussel's life cycle.

Photographed at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery (Yankton, SD) by Sam Stukel (USFWS).

07/01/2020 06:48 AM MDT

USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo:

Black sandshell mussel propagation

Flushing the glochidia from the mussel into a beaker.

Photographed at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery (Yankton, SD) by Sam Stukel (USFWS).

07/01/2020 06:48 AM MDT

USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo:

Black sandshell mussel propagation

Inspecting the glochidia before placing them into buckets with the potential host fish.

Photographed at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery (Yankton, SD) by Sam Stukel (USFWS).

07/01/2020 06:48 AM MDT

USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo:

Black sandshell mussel propagation

Inspecting a flathead chub's gills to see if the mussel glochidia have attached.

Photographed at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery (Yankton, SD) by Sam Stukel (USFWS).

07/01/2020 06:48 AM MDT

USFWS Mountain Prairie posted a photo:

Black sandshell mussel propagation

Host fish are spread out among a set of buckets for two weeks. After this time we will inspect to see if any glochidia have transformed into the next life stage.

Photographed at Gavins Point National Fish Hatchery (Yankton, SD) by Sam Stukel (USFWS).


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