Place the skewered mussels on a baking sheet. Take the baguettes and cut into 6 x 8cm/3¼in barrels. Carefully remove the centres from each leaving ½cm/¼in perimeter around the sides and base.

WASHINGTON— In response to a legal petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect the green floater, a freshwater mussel found from New ...