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Mussel Colonization of the rocky beach-mussel spat escaped from rafts and are one foot deep.  Dying ones rot in the sun, stinking and attracting yellow jacket bees.  Very hazardous walking conditions.  The spark that ignited APHETI. 1997

The same beach before the mussel rafts, rocky, gravelly beach. taken in the 1980's

The same beach after the mussel rafts-underneath the growth of seaweed are mussels.  The seaweed is not present later in the summer, as indicated by the first picture.