Posted June 7, 2018
Opioids, which kill an average of 115 Americans daily,1 have found their way into waterways where they’re now coursing through filter feeders, including mussels, and possibly other sea life as well. Mussels serve as useful pollution barometers because they absorb environmental pollutants as a matter of course. Researchers with the Puget Sound Mussel Monitoring Program actually move uncontaminated mussels to various locations in Washington’s Puget Sound every two years in order to study pollution levels. Read more.