Birth of Freshwater Mussels
Channel: DEESTUARY
Date: 2017-05-24

Watch as an alewife floater mussel gives birth by spewing its babies (glochidia) into the water. In the wild, some of these babies might attach to an alewife fish, thus hitching a ride upstream.

This video was recorded at "The Mussel Hatchery" exhibit at the Fairmount Water Works in Philadelphia. Read more about this on our website at ow.ly/vcZZ3096g60.

Credit: Angela Padeletti of the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary