Meet Krystal Chen, the 23-year-old owner and founder of Pearl & The Beast, the Soho jewelry store that specializes in fishing for mussels in exchange for pearls. If you want pearl jewelry from this ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, have found that the larvae of freshwater pearl mussel survive best in the original salmon fish population of their home river. The freshwater pearl ...

Freshwater pearl mussels are found in rivers in Japan. They are in severe decline, however, and are on the endangered Red List designated by the Ministry of the Environment. Freshwater pearl mussels ...

A remarkable freshwater pearl, the largest discovered in Scotland for over 400 years, is now on display at the National Museum of Scotland (NMS). Named the Abernethy Pearl after its finder, William ...

Fabulous tales of fortunes in 1924, freshwater pearls taken from Mississippi River mussels are still told along the shores of Lake Pepin and in the declining pearl button cities like Muscatine, Iowa.

CAMDEN, Tenn. (WKRN) — Did you know that one of nature’s most beautiful gemstones, the freshwater pearl, is the official state gem of Tennessee? That’s because the only freshwater pearl farm in North ...

ARKHANGELSK, August 8. /TASS/. Russian scientists reconstructed how pearl mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera) settled after the glaciation in Europe and North America and analyzed the species’ ...

If you want pearl jewelry from this Soho shop, you’re going to have to use some mussel. At Pearl & the Beast, shoppers can go fishing for mussels and shuck them open themselves for shiny pearls to ...