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Nevin Welte with the Fish and Boat Commission uses a bathyscope underwater viewing device to search for freshwater mussels in the Shenango River in Mercer County on Sept. 10, part of a Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission survey of the freshwater mussel population in the region.

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October 2, 2025

Why the discovery of a golf-ball-sized ‘hickorynut’ mussel in the Shenango River is a big deal

By MARY ANN THOMAS Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — They dove and snorkeled in the Mercer County portion of the Shenango River the ...

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