Photo By/Credit
Patterson, Matthew/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
05/05/2006Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Transporting a gravid female to the shore to extract glochidia using the siphon method. The pipette with the mussel attached is held in one hand and the other end of the nylon tube is sealed with the other hand. Photo: Amanda Wood, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.