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| Why are savs so important |
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Food source for ducks, geese, and crabs
Habitat for crabs and small fish
Traps sediment, protects floor from erosion
provides o2 |
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sediment smothers and blocks sunlight
nurtients such as fertilizers sewage treatment and lawn chemicals
algae bloom blocks sunlight
chemicals kill SAV's |
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| how many gallons of water do oysters filter in a sinlge day |
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| juvenile oysters are called? |
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| what gender can a single oyster be |
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| it ccan be both they can change gender when they are about 3 months old |
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| how big does an oyster have to be before it can be caught |
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| by sucking water into their shells then filtering out small plants called phytoplankton |
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| what factors effect the oysters demise |
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| overharvesting, msx and dermo, and sedimentation |
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| plankton are organisms which passivly drift with the current |
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| another name for rockfish is |
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| Where do rockfish live most of there lives |
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| Where do juvenile fish start their lives |
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| shallow marshes and grassy beds hiding from predators |
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| having there bellies white so you cant seethem when you look up and having the uperalf of the body a dark color to match the depth of the sea |
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| how did rockfish recover from being endangered |
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| a five year moritorium, and restoration of spawning grounds |
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