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| Submerged Aquatic Vegitation |
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| Why are SAVs so important |
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| Food source,Habitat, traps sediment protects floor from erosion, provides h2o |
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| Why are SAVs dissapearing |
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| sediment smothers tem and blocks sunlight,to many nutrients, algae bloom-blocks sunlights, chemicals kill it |
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| the first stage of a blue crab |
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| when a crustacean gets to big for it shell |
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| zoea x3, megalopa 30x, and 1/3x |
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| types of zooplankton are... |
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| another form or larvae that come after the zoea |
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| How long do crabs live for? |
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| How many legs do crabs have |
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| crabs have and exoskeleton |
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| a skeleton on the outside of your body |
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| 3/4 legal crabs are caught and eaten each year |
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| can oysters be legally caught and eaten? |
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| yeah it has to be three inches long |
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| can oysters change gender? |
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| oysters eat by sucking water into their shells and |
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| they filter out small plants called phyto plankton |
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| oyster use to be so abundant, how long would it take to fliter the bay? |
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| they could fliter the entire bay in a few days |
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| how much of the population is left? |
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| now their is only 1% of the population left |
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| why are oysters dieing so rapidly? |
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| overharvesting, MSX, and dermo |
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| does sediment cover habitats? |
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| yes and it prevents larva oysters to attaching themselves to a hard surface. |
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| organisms whish passively drit with the current. |
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| by far the most numerous plankton in the bay. |
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| animals whose movement are controlled by tidal current |
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| that never grom larger than the tip of a pencil |
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| what is another name for rockfish? |
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| what is another name for striped? |
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| soft crabs fish and other animals |
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| where do mature rockfish spend their live? |
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| where do young rockfish live? |
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| the marshed and wetlands because of protection |
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| is camouflage in all the right places |
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| why have rockfish made a great recovery |
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| restored spawnning beds and five year moratorium |
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| by opening their mouths wide and consuming as much as possible. |
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| they eat plankton and algae. |
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| what are menhadens predators? |
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| bluefish, and rockfish are the main predators. |
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| what do humans use them for? |
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| food products, animal food, oils. fertilizers, lipsticks, etc. |
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| what is omega protein and what do they do. |
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| they are a company that takes t fish oils and makes vitamins out of them |
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| mollusks,clams,snails,musscles,fish,worms |
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| is the dimond back the only turtle that lives in brackish water? |
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