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BBC: If someone mentions mussels and your first thought is a big bowl of moules mariniere, then you are not alone.
However, the popular seafood dish has a much less palatable relative, the freshwater zebra mussel.
An invasive species, the zebra mussel clogs up water works and systems across the UK, costing millions of pounds each year to remove.
The removal is more often done by having to send down divers to hack them off by hand.
This is because it is very difficult to get rid of zebra mussels......
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United Kingdom: Giving an invasive water pest the bullet
Posted by BBC: Will Smale on February 3rd, 2012
Posted in Water Conservation