While I was sitting at the Great Lakes United table at the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts a few weeks ago, a visitor asked if we could harvest and eat zebra mussels. They commented that they ...

Correspondent  “There is no doubt Prior Lake is infected with zebra mussels,” said Ross Bintner, Prior Lake’s water resources engineer. Bintner said a live zebra mussel ...

By Forrest Adams Last summer zebra mussels were discovered in Prior Lake and this summer in Lake Minnetonka, sandwiching the communities of Chanhassen, Eden Prairie, Victoria, Chaska and Shakopee.

It's imperative to stop the spread before it gets out of hand. Zebra mussels eat plankton, a source of food for native species; colonize fish spawning areas and beaches; and clog pipes.

But the new research doesn’t carry the message that it’s not safe to eat wild-caught fish or that fish from lakes invaded by zebra mussels are toxic and shouldn’t be consumed, she said.

Fourteen months after live zebra mussels were found in Clear Lake, Parks Canada says it's not feasible to eradicate the invasive species from the largest body of water in Riding Mountain National ...