{"id":5205,"date":"2026-09-25T08:42:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/2026\/09\/25\/rescue-operation-for-thousands-of-mussels\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:49:47","slug":"rescue-operation-for-thousands-of-mussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/en\/2026\/09\/25\/rescue-operation-for-thousands-of-mussels\/","title":{"rendered":"Rescue Operation for Thousands of Mussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the summer, there have been frequent reports of rivers with extremely low flows, some of which have even dried up. In one of the project\u2019s target rivers, the Br\u00e5\u00e5n\u2014which is part of the River K\u00e4vlinge\u00e5n watershed\u2014the disaster was a reality. During a visit to the Br\u00e5\u00e5n in early August, it was observed that the water in the riverbed had largely disappeared. The Br\u00e5\u00e5n is one of Sk\u00e5ne\u2019s most important rivers for the endangered thick shelled river mussel. An effort was launched to relocate the mussels from the dried-up sections to parts of the Br\u00e5\u00e5n where there was still sufficient water. Approximately 3,000 mussels were moved from the dried-up sections and placed in pools in deeper parts of the river.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5214\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5214\" class=\"wp-image-5214 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shared-image-3-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"En tjockskalig m\u00e5larmussla ligger och torkar ut mellan tv\u00e5 stenar\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shared-image-3-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shared-image-3-1300x867.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shared-image-3-325x217.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A thick shelled river mussel is lying between two rocks, drying out.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It can be difficult to relocate mussels because you don\u2019t know how they will react to the environmental conditions at the new site, but the rescue operation was necessary and successful. By early September, water had returned to the dried-up areas, and a relocation back to their original habitat was organized for the mussels.  A very low mortality rate of only 1\u20132% of the relocated mussels was recorded, and the mortality was likely due to the fact that they had been on dry land for some time as a result of the drying out. The relocation likely saved large portions of the Br\u00e5\u00e5n mussel population. Unfortunately, many thick shelled river mussels had already died in the dried-up river. Mussels can survive short periods of drought, but the discovery of dead mussels along the dried-up stretches suggests that this dry spell was too long.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5215\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5215\" class=\"wp-image-5215 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shared-image-2-e1790933210375-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"Det var om\u00f6jligt att flytta alla musslorna i Br\u00e5\u00e5n och musslor som inte flyttades kunnde senare hittas d\u00f6da\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shared-image-2-e1790933210375-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shared-image-2-e1790933210375-1300x867.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shared-image-2-e1790933210375-325x217.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was impossible to relocate all the mussels in the Br\u00e5\u00e5n River, and those that were not relocated were later found dead.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In Br\u00e5\u00e5n, the project is conducting artificial reproduction of the thick shelled river mussel by collecting mussel larvae (glochidia) from pregnant mussels and infecting the mussel\u2019s host fish with the larvae. This work is now more important than ever.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5201\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5201\" class=\"wp-image-5201 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914_101641-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"N\u00e5gra av de tusentals musslornas tillf\u00e4lliga hem i sumpar i Br\u00e5\u00e5n under torkan\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914_101641-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914_101641-1300x867.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/improveaquaticlife.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260914_101641-325x217.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the temporary homes of the thousands of mussels in the marshes along the Br\u00e5\u00e5n River during the drought.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the summer, there have been frequent reports of rivers with extremely low flows, some of which have even dried up. In one of the project\u2019s target rivers, the Br\u00e5\u00e5n\u2014which is part of the River K\u00e4vlinge\u00e5n watershed\u2014the disaster was a reality. During a visit to the Br\u00e5\u00e5n in early August, it was observed that the water in the riverbed had largely disappeared in the area where the Thick shelled river mussel has its main population. An effort was launched to relocate the mussels from the dried-up sections to parts of the Br\u00e5\u00e5n where there was still sufficient water. Approximately 3,000 mussels were moved from the dried-up sections and placed in pools in deeper parts of the river.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,70,37,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-kavlingean-and-braan","category-thick-shelled-river-mussel","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.8 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rescuing 3,000 river mussels from drought<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Around 3,000 endangered thick-shelled river mussels were moved from drought-hit stretches of the Br\u00e5\u00e5n to areas with water. 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