juvenile mussels being held at Inks Dam

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Fisheries Biologist Bailey Gaines shows off some of the juvenile Texas fatmucket mussels produced at Inks Dam National Fish Hatchery in 2020. Gaines won the 2019 Innovator of the Year Award for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Southwest Region for designing and engineering a new type of rearing system for hatchery produced mussels. (Photo: Aubry Buzek/USFWS)