mussel bed

The lighthouse is built on an oyster and mussel bed.

And if the mussel beds continue to grow, it will constrict the channel even more.

In some rivers and streams entire freshwater mussel beds were completely eliminated.

Sea palms muscle their way into mussel beds by harnessing wave power.

This summer, five years after the spill, government scientists initiated tests to determine if the oil could be removed from these mussel beds.

It was a steeplechase over rock and sand, like crossing mussel beds when the tide is out.

Large mussel beds extend out 200 m from Browns Island into the river.

It can range from 5 to 15 cm in length and is usually found under rocks or in mussel beds.

There are many mussel beds around the SW shore so landing is difficult.

Inshore from the bar there is a shallow lagoon, which contains extensive mussel beds.

We felt proprietary rights over the cranberry bogs, the coyotes, the mussel beds and the gannets.

You can faintly see the island from the beach, and at low tide you can make out the mussel beds.

Maybe the same chemosensory mechanisms for detecting mussel beds can be used by its larvae.

During this initial stage, when methane is relatively abundant, dense mussel beds also form near the cold seep.

This sea star can be found in great numbers on mussel beds and on wave-washed rocky shores.

Extras include clam and mussel beds.

They come every day to feed on the mussel beds, hammering open the shells with their coral-red bills until the tide drives them off.

Large number of mussel beds are also located along this section of the Meramec River.

The significance of the behavior is its relation to the formation of mussel beds from mussel fields.

Paralytic shellfish poisoning, for example, was discovered in California in the 1920's, and many mussel beds there are closed.

Some mussel beds, or flats, are wholly or partly exposed at low tide; others are underwater all the time.

It lives along the bottom, in and amongst rocks, wrecks, mussel beds, bridge pilings or other bottom features.

Mussel beds, eel grass, snails, crustaceans and fish in the shallow waters around the island provide an important food source for water birds.

Mussel beds are persistent, dense mussel populations.

"Our immediate concern is the mussel beds," said Peter A. Tennant, a spokesman for the commission.