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| submege acuaitc vegitation |
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| Food source, habitat, traps sediment, provides oxygen |
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| why are SAV dissappering? |
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| sediment blocks the sunlight, nutrients, chemicals |
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| Blue craps begin their lives as what? |
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| the male crab will carry the female crab beeath his body until she... |
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| what are small crabs called? |
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| Zoea are considered what? |
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| Lucky ones eventually grow into a nother larval form called.... |
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| crabs live for about how many years? |
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| Atlantic blue crabs have ten legs each one has it's own specific function |
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| the two front claws are used to grab food the other six legs are used for walking and the last two are used for swiming |
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| the blue crabs shell is like it's own personal coat of armor what is it called? |
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| it is estimated about three out of four crabs (75%) legal sized crabs in the chesapeake bay are caught and what? |
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| Juvenile attached oysters are called.. |
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| when can oysters be legally caught? |
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| when their three inches long |
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| at what age are oysters bisexual? |
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| they suck water into their shells and filter out small plants called phytoplankton. |
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| oyster were once so abundant that they what? |
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| what percent of oysters are left? |
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| what are the several factors that led to oyster's demise? |
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| Overharvesting, diseases, and sediment caused by land development. |
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| the two most common diseases are? |
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| plankton are defined as... |
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| organisms which passively drift with the current. |
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| microscopic plants called phytoplankton are by far what? |
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| the most numerous plankton in the bay |
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| zooplankton are animals whose movement are controlled by what? |
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| many zooplankton are copepods which never grow to be bigger than what? |
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| from all time lows what happen? |
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| a 5 year fishing moratorium |
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| fish, soft crabs and eels |
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| where do rockfish live most of their lives? |
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| in the saltwater of the ocean |
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| most juvenile fish begin their lives were? |
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| shallow marshes and grass beds |
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| a 5 year moratorium was put in place which prohibited fishing for striped bass |
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| they suck in their food with their mouths (filter feeders) |
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| what are the predators of menhaden? |
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| what do humans use menhaden for? |
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| bait (crab, and fish) oil on food like turkey and bacon, and for animal food like dog food. |
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| what is omega protein and what do they do? |
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| they are a company that processes fish. |
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| what do diamondback terrapins eat |
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| mussles, snails, clams and fish |
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| diamondback terripans are what |
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| only turttle in the world that lives in brackish water |
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| what determines the age on diamonback tuttles |
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| who can be larger female or male |
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| are diamondback turttles edebal |
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| what determines the gender for diamondback turttles |
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| the tempeture (hot=female, and cold=male) |
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