The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has announced that four male weedy seadragons are carrying eggs—a first, according to the Zoo ...

The Great Lakes have been victimized by invasive populations of mussels for years. The zebra and quagga mussels are a danger ...

Water quality in Flathead Lake and the rise and fall of different fish populations all point to the same culprit: introduction of the mysis shrimp in the 1980s. The significant ecological ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri River is now home to one kind of fish that recently became the last of its species. SEA LIFE Kansas City says that they’ve released dozens of American Paddlefish into ...

These fish feed predominantly on the mysis shrimp flushed through the dam and out of the reservoir. The shrimp come out of the dam clear but die off quickly, turning a more opaque, white color. Mysis ...

The seadragons also use small fins to help them maneuver and find tiny organisms, like mysis shrimp, to eat. “These fins are transparent, so they are almost invisible, even when they are fluttering ...

Minnesota Power Foundation gifted $50,000 as a naming sponsor for the exhibit. Weedy seadragons feed on mysis shrimp at the Great Lakes Aquarium’s new exhibit, "Minnesota Power Foundation ...

Ewert explained that Lake Granby has the highest population of Mysis shrimp in the state, which eat zooplankton – the same food salmon depend on. The shrimp are a great food for small lake trout but ...

MYSIS SHRIMP INCREASE IN PEND OREILLE Mysis Shrimp are alive and well in Pend Oreille Lake. Field checks last summer found shrimp on both ends of the big lake, which received its first small ...

Also occurring in the 1970s, the state of Idaho imported mysis shrimp from Canada into Idaho lakes. The mysis thrived and became a new and major source of food for Idaho salmon. With this new ...

One was to better understand the zooplankton community at different depths. A species called mysis relicta, or mysis shrimp, only come up at night to feed because they’re very sensitive to light. They ...