Susi von Oettingen of the Fish and Wildlife Services of New England cares for some of the brook floater mussels that were stranded when the Suncook River changed its course last month.
Epoxy doesn't stick to mussels very well. That's what biologists discovered as they worked to tag the 1,100 state endangered brook floater mussels abandoned in a dry riverbed when the Suncook River breached its banks during last month's flood.
The tiny numbered tags would fall off 20 minutes after the mussels, now… 0