Photo Credit: Mote Marine Laboratory
Green mussels first observed at TECO’s Gannon power station July 15, 1999 in the seawater intake system.
Perna viridis collected from TECO Gannon Plant October 13, 1999.
Photographed November 4, 1999 in a Tank at Mote Marine Laboratory.
According to biologists at Mote, the mussels moved across the sediment and climbed the piece of wood.