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| Submerge Aquatic Vegetation |
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| How are SAV'S important to the Chesepeake Bay? |
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| they provide food for animals, and provide habitats for aquatic orgasims |
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1. sediment (erosion) clouds water no light
2. too much algae (from fertilizer) cloudy water
3. toxic chemicals (acid rain, Roundup) kill them |
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| Blue crabs begin their lives as tiny larvae which bear little resemblance to the creature we are fimiliar with at the dinner table |
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| females crabs are called sooks |
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| crabs molt to get rid of thier shell |
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| when crab eggs hatch small larva called zoea are realeased |
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| they eventually grow into megalops |
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| crabs live for three years |
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| the exoskeleton has pointy ends which provides protection from predators |
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| It is estimated that three out of every four legal sized crabs in the Chesepeake Bay are caught and eaten each year |
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| juvenille oysters are called spat |
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| once oysters are three inched long they can be caught and eaten |
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| oysters have the ability to change sex |
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| oysters eat by sucking water into their shells and filtering small plants |
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| so abundant that they filtered the entire chesepeake bay |
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| there are only 1% of the historic population remaning |
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| sevreal factors have led to the oysters demise. One is the two deseases called MSX and "dermo" |
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| small organisms that pasivly drift with the current |
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| common type of zooplankton |
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| when one thing eats something else and it countinues |
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| A place where you cant hunt fish |
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| small fish, soft crabs, eels |
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| WHat is the other name for a rockfish? |
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| Where do they spend most of their lives |
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| in saltwater in the ocean |
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| Where do juvinille fish live? |
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| shallow marshes and grass beds |
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| what is the name of camaflouge they use? |
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1. 5 year moratorium
2. restored spawning grounds |
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| What are their predators? |
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| blue fish, striped bass, and osprey |
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| What do humans use them for? |
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| food, fish oil pills, and fertilizer. |
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| What is Omega Protein and what do they do? |
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| It is a company, and they use menhaden for different products. |
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| feeds on clams, mussels, fish, and mollusks |
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| females are bigger than males |
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| can tell age by rings on shell |
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| temperature affects gender of offspring |
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| only turtle to live in brackish water |
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| terrapin pop. decimated because made into soup. |
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