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This Microscope Monday 🔬 for your freshwater pearl mussel pleasure, we have a short video of some recently excysted healthy juveniles. The freshwater pearl mussel juveniles are from the River Irt, West Cumbria. They will now be reared at the FBA Ark for a minimum of three years before being translocated back to their native river to reinforce the wild population. Since 2007 the FBA has been captive breeding one of the most endangered freshwater invertebrates in Europe, trying to save local popu