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| Submerged Aquatic Vegetation |
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| Provide rich food, and a grass bed. Also helps stabolize the bottom of the bay. |
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| Why are SAV's dissapearing? |
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| Toxic chemicals, fertilizers, algae |
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| What are juvenile oysters called? |
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| How long does an oyster have to be to be caught? |
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| Suck water into there shells. |
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| This system greatly improves the bay. |
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| Oysters can change there gender. |
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| How long does it take oysters to filter the bay? |
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| What are the 2 diseases that kill oysters? |
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| What are blue carbs start off as? |
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| What are female crabs called? |
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| What are male crabs called? |
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| When does the male carry the female crab? |
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| when do crabs megalops become full grown? |
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| after about several months |
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| How many legs do crabs have? |
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| a hard shell with pointy ends that help protect from predators. |
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| 3/4 legal blue crabs are caught each year. |
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| organisms which passivly drift with the current. |
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| the most numerous plankton in the bay. |
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| plankton controled by tital current. |
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| plankton that never grow to be bigger than a pencil |
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| What is another name for rockfish? |
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| Why has the rockfish pop. come back? |
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| 5 year moratorium/spawning grounds |
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| What do striped bass eat? |
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| eels, soft crabs, and many small fish |
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| When do striped bass swim in saltwater? |
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| When do small striped bass spend there lives |
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| What is the striped bass' camouflage known as? |
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| What are there predators? |
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| What do human use them for? |
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| What is omega protein and what do they do? |
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| A company that catches and produces Menhaden |
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| only turtle in the world that lives in brackish. |
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| What does the dimond back eat? |
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| Which dimonback gender is larger? |
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| by the amount of rings on a shell. |
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| Population decreased because.. |
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