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| Submerged Aquatic Vegetation |
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| What are SAV important? (4 reasons) |
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| Food source, provides habitat, protect bottom from erosion, provide oxygen |
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| Why are SAV disappearing? |
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| Buried in sediment, algae blocks sunlight, toxic chemicals |
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| 2nd form of a crab before adult |
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| blue crabs have how many legs |
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| organisms which passively drift with the current. |
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| animals whose moves by the tidal current. |
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| never grow to be bigger than a tip of a pencil |
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| Other name for striped bass |
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| law saying can't catch fish |
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| eels, soft crabs and fish |
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| where do rockfish live most of there lives |
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| where do juvenille stripers live |
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| live in shallow water and grass beds |
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| why has rockfish population recovered |
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| 5 year mortorium, resteration of spawning grounds |
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| What do they eat? (menhaden) |
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| What are menhadens predators? |
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| bluefish, drum, trout, rockfish |
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| What do humans use menhaden for? |
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| crab bait, fish bait, chum |
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| what is omega protein and what do they do? |
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| sell to crabbers company that process menhaden |
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| feeds on clams, mussels and fish |
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| only turtle that lives in brackish water |
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| diamondback terrapains how big are the turtles which one is bigger male or female |
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| females are13 inches and the male is 9 inches so female is bigger than the male. |
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| tell age by rings on the shell |
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| warmer the temperture the diamondback terrapains |
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| have more females when they mate |
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