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The quick answer is yes, they can. The complicated answer is that many freshwater mussels are threatened or endangered. This means before you decide to eat any, you need to check with your state or government fisheries department or in the very least the Dept of Environmental Protection website. Remember that mussels are filter feeders and so if you eat a mussel from a polluted body of water chances are, the pollutants will also be found in the mussel and after eating them, in your stomach.

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