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Red Drum And Black Drum
2,184 wordsHave you ever been fishing before? Not fishing based on lucky casts with worms or a bob ber but fishing based on knowledge of what the fish do under the waves. I've been interested in fishing since the beginning of my time here on earth. Fish fascinate me, and catching them on rod and reel excites my inner primal being. I chose this topic to get into the mind of the fish I aim to catch. I already know much about my quarry. I know that Red Drum come in from the ocean to spawn in salt water back b...
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Rock Lobsters And Whelks Around Two Islands
964 wordsOur categorizations of nature are based on domination. The world is divided ecologically into predator and prey, or bigger more advanced animals versus smaller simpler creatures. One category is superior which dominates the second category which is inferior. But this dualism based on dominance represented by the demand of a preferred human order upon nature is in fact contradictory. As an obvious example, carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap consumes insects, and the bigger and more taxonom...
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Population Dynamics Of The Mako Shark
770 wordsThe shortfin mako shark is the fastest fish in the world. It is capable of attaining speeds of up to 60 mph. It's dark red iron-rich muscles on the side of the shark's body and especially on the tail enable the shark to swim at these speeds. The speed of the mako affects its physical characteristics, its eating habits, and its predators. The average size of the shortfin mako shark is from 10 to 12 feet and the largest size ever recorded was 18 feet. This fish weighs about 1,000 pounds. Its large...
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Occasional Basking Shark
2,893 wordsBasking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunner us) 1765 Bone Shark Bigelow and Schroeder, 1948, p. 147. In light of recent reports of basking sharks along the New England Coast we have assembled this page to provide information concerning this second largest of all sharks. This species is not known to be aggressive or dangerous but like any large animal should be treated with respect. The information below is taken from Bigelow and Schroeder, Fishes of the Gulf of Maine. The basking shark resembles th...
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Canada's Water
1,502 words1994 the year NAFTA had become effective, delegates from three Countries (Canada, United States and Mexico) had signed a free trade agreement in December of 1992. The leaders of these nations signed the agreement with the hopes of prosperity. Isn't ironic that five years later we are starting to see that NAFTA was not beneficial but in fact the opposite. Since then NAFTA has ignited fierce opposition from labour and environmental groups. They have feared that many jobs would be lost either to th...
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Loss Of The Wetlands
623 wordsThe Atchafalaya is the most original basins because it has a growing system with very stable wetlands. It is also the biggest river swamp in North America but has lost about 3,760 acres between 1932 and 1990. The loss of the wetlands is primarily due to erosion, human activities, and natural conversion. Many human activities, such as oil and gas pipelines, have interrupted the movement of flow and sediment within the wetlands that it is another factor in the loss of acres for the Atchafalaya. Bu...
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Fish Lamb
1,226 wordsCloudstreet, by Tim Winton'A texts setting and structure will normally be used by writers to develop and convey its themes. ' The novel Cloudstreet, by Western Australian born novelist Tim Winton is essentially a story revolving around how two rural families have come to live together at number one Cloudstreet. This novel's themes are about finding one's place in the world and the search for the meaning of life. As in this instance, Winton has successfully used setting and structure, crucial fac...
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Deep Sea Fishing On Our Boat
1,069 wordsCreative Writing: Unexpected Horizons Wow! I love going deep sea fishing on our boat. I was excited when my dad had asked me if I wanted to go this weekend. We departed that Saturday morning after almost a week of sheer anticipation, our destination, Port Canaveral, home of of some of the best fishing on the east coast of Florida. The sea is a very dangerous place when riled by a storm, even a mild one, so we always made sure the day would be at least close to perfect before we ventured out into...
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Surface Waters Into Motion As Currents
1,343 wordsThe Ocean The world's ocean covers about 70% of the Earth's surface. It is use to produce us many things. It is more than a place to swimming, sailing and other recreation. The ocean serves as a source of energy, raw materials and most of all food like fish and seaweed. In this essay I will talk about 'What are our ocean resources and the importance of the oceans in the future. ' First, our largest resource in the ocean is food. There are two different kinds of food in the ocean, such as marine ...
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New York New Jersey Harbor Estuary
1,343 wordsEstuaries An estuary is a coastal area where fresh water from rivers and streams mixes with salt water from the ocean. Many bays, sounds, and lagoons along coasts are estuaries. Portions of rivers and streams connected to estuaries are also considered part of the estuary. The land area from which fresh water drains into the estuary is its watershed. Estuaries come in all shapes and sizes, each unique to their location and climate. Bays, sounds, marshes, swamps, inlets, and sloughs are all exampl...
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Sturgeon Caviar
1,036 wordsCaviar Settlers of America discovered sturgeon to be the most prolific fish of the North American continent. In the beginning of 19th century, the United States was the major producer of caviar in the world and produced 90% of the world's caviar. The American caviar industry got started when Henry Schacht, a German immigrant, opened a business catching sturgeon on the Delaware River. He treated his caviar with German salt and exported a great deal of it to Europe. At around the same time, sturge...
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Range Of The Redfin Pickerel
458 wordsDescription: The Redfin pickerel has 15 to 36 dark, wavy vertical bars and reddish-orange lower fins. The coloration is much the same as that of chain pickerels, a dark backward slanting bar below the eye. The snout is shorter and broader than any other pickerel. There are normally 11 to 13 branchiosstegal rays under the lower jaw. The cheek and gill covers are completely covered in scales. They weigh up to one and a half pounds, which is the world record to this day. They have an average length...
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Fish The Water Lilies
778 wordsHyperspace A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension Imagine a you are sitting next to a pond. Now imagine such as how the fish in that pond would view the world around them. Living their entire lives in the pond, the fish would believe that their "universe" consisted of the murky water and the lilies. Spending most of their time foraging on the bottom of the pond, they would be only dimly aware that an alien world could exist above the surface. The natu...
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Large Greenland Shark
1,307 wordsSharks live in almost every part of the oceans, from coastal environments to deep-sea habitats. They also live in the warm waters of the tropics to the cold frigid waters of the polar region. The Greenland shark, also known as somniousus Microcephalus, lives in the dark, cold waters of the North Atlantic (I 65). The Greenland shark belongs to the order Squaliforms, more usually known as dogfish sharks. There are 70 species in this order, which includes the spied sharks, spiny dogfish, Sleeper sh...
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Estuaries Nutrients
1,216 wordsAn estuary is where the river meets the sea. Life in the estuary is depending upon salinity, which decreases from open ocean to the mouths of the inflowing rivers. As salinity declines, the assortment of life declines, because most estuarine organisms are marine. But they are high rich ecosystems, accounting for one-half the living matter of the worlds oceans. This high productivity is a result of a nutrient trap formed by the interactions of tides and inflowing rivers. Fresh water, lighter in w...
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Back With Dozens Of Fish
2,037 wordsWhenever I recall my vacation up to my grandpa's house boat, I remember all the happy childhood memories that we shared together. During the summer, after my last year of elementary school, my family and I decided to go on a vacation to visit my grandparents, who live on a houseboat in Stockton, CA. This was my first trip further than 100 miles from home. I was very excited and I was sure I was going to come home with new experiences and stories to share. We woke up almost every morning before d...
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Most Common Harmful Algal Bloom Species
2,571 wordsThroughout the world's coastal oceans, observations of harmful algal blooms, referred to as red tides in older literature, are being reported with increasing frequency. Often, these events are accompanied by severe impacts to coastal resources, local economies, and public health. Harmful algal blooms - accumulation of microscopic species of algae or larger, multi-cellular species - appear to be more disturbing than ever before, and may be increasing over time. Some species persist in the same ge...
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Shooting The Boy With Water
959 wordsA Summer Day Driving across the bridge over Lake Ray Hubbard one sunny Saturday afternoon, I was overcome with the gentle breeze blowing through my open window and decided to stop for a little while. I pulled off the highway and parked the car. Upon exiting the car, I walked to the edge of the water and sat down. As I sat on the warm sand, I began to pick up handfuls of the sand and let it slowly filter through my open fingers. I also became aware of the activities going on around me. A man to m...
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Bus Downtown To The Beach
925 wordsLast Barracudas The Bermuda Barracuda Last summer I was almost eaten alive when my family and I went on a cruise to Bermuda. My experience in Bermuda included going to many of the beaches and lagoons. On the very last day before we left this beautiful, luxurious island we decided to go to Horseshoe Beach and Lagoon now I had heard that Horseshoe Beach was the most gorgeous and unique beach around because it had acres of shining pink sand. For that reason my family decided to ride the bus downtow...
