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| Submerged-Aquatic-Vegitation |
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The give food!
Shelter!
Stabalize Bay floor
And provide O2! |
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| Wwhy are the SAV disapeering |
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Toxic Chemicles kil them!
Sediment makes erosion
And ther eis too much algea!!! |
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| What do blue crabs begin as? |
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| Blue crabs begin as larvea. |
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| Female crabs are called "sooks" |
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| Male crabs are called "jimmies" |
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| They are like plant plankton |
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| They are like animal plankton |
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| Copeopods are a type of plankton |
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| The food-web is like the food chain. |
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| Zoea are at the mercy of the current and are considered Zooplankton |
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| A megalopa is a grown up zoea, that eventually grows into a crab! |
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| How many eggs does each female crab carries. |
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| A female crab carries around 2 million fertilized eggs |
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| A spat is is when a juvinial oyster attaches to a hard surface. |
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| Oysters eat by sucking water into thrir shells that have zooplankton |
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| What is very unique about oysters? |
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| Something that is VERY unique about oysters is the fact that they can change GENDER! |
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| Whats another aname for a Striped Bass? |
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| A Moritoriom is a BAN of fishing or hunting. |
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| They eat Worms, insect larvae and smaller fish. |
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| Where do Striped Bass live for most of their lives? |
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| Where do juvinile rockfish begin? |
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| What kind of camoflauge do Rockfish use? |
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| They use a two part system that alows them to blend in with their surroundings. |
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| Why has the Rockfish population come back? |
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There are 2 reasons:
1. 5 year Moratorium
2. Spawning grouds protect rockfish |
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| Menhaden eat phytoplankton |
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| Menhanden suck their prey like vaccumes |
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| What are menhaden preditors. |
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| Striped bass, and bluefish |
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| Humans use them to make lipstick dog-food paint etc |
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| What is Organic Protien and what does it do? |
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| Organic protien is a company that catches menhaden and sells them. |
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| What is unique about thw Diamond Back TUrtle? |
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| It is the ONLY turtle in the world that can be found in brackish water |
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| What does the Duamond Back Turtle Eat? |
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| What is uniqeu about the female? |
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| The female is larger than the male |
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| How does the temaptrue help? |
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| Warmer tempature->more eggs hatch as females |
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| How can you tell the age of a turtel? |
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| By the rings on the shells. |
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| What has happened with the population? |
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| The population has decimated years ago because they were used in soup |
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| How many legs does a crab have? |
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| How many years does a crab live for? |
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| What is the legal crab size? |
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| A company that catches and processes menhaden |
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| How many crabs get caught? |
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| Plankton are organisms that flow with the drift |
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| What % of crabs from historic times are still alive? |
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