"They were raised here and they're used to swimming in water where you couldn't see anything," said Mr. Spadaro, president of the Magothy River Association. "The water quality now is phenomenal. I've heard it described as gin clear."
The top suspect? Mussels, millions of them, which have attached themselves to ropes, boats and anything else manmade throughout the river.
The dark false mussel, Mytilopis leucophaeata, is native to the Chesapeake Bay, but residents along the river say they haven't...
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