Hatched and raised in a terrarium, the young snail had been served the finest of portobello mushrooms and fresh water in a blue mussel shell.

Its menu features dishes such as Singapore-style crab from Queensland and steamed Australian blue mussels.

They had a stack of blue mussels-whichwere getting a little smelly-whenDavid happened to glance across at Astrid.

Instead of extracting proteins from byssus, we directly use the protein solution from alive blue mussels, which are intensely commercially used.

Blue mussels (Mytilus edulis L. 1758) are important components of coastal ecosystems and in the economy of rural and coastal areas.