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Are saltwater catfish good to eat?
Are the eyes of flatfishes on the right or left side?
What fishes are named after other animals?
What attracts sharks? Which are most dangeous?
Where do salmon go in the ocean?
How many eggs do salmon have?
How many kinds of lobsters are there in this
country,
How old is a one-pound lobster?
How can one tell if a boiled lobster was alive when cooked?
What are some other names for lobsters?
Are lobsters different colors?
Have Maine lobsters been successfully transplanted to the west coast?
How much does a blue crab increase in size on molting?
What are the small crabs found inside
oysters?
How many eggs does a shrimp produce in one spawning?
How does a clam shell grow?
How are scallops caught?
Is it safe to eat oysters during the months without R's?
What is the sand collar that one often sees on beaches at low tide?
What are some confusing fish names?
What is is the rarest of all sea turtles?
What is the fish listed as "scrod" in New England restaurants?
What are menhaden?
Where are Atlantic menhaden spawned,
where do they go after hatching?
What do herring eat?
Has any kind of marine or ocean dwelling fish been successfully transplanted from coast to coast in the United States?
How large do ocean sunfish get?
How do porcupine fish inflate themselves?
What is an "exotic" fish?
What kind of fish is a "Bombay Duck"?
How much electricity does an electric eel generate?
What are moray eels and where are they found?
What is pearl essence?
Is the blue shark really blue?
What sea creatures other than sharks may be dangerous to swimmers?
How many species of Pacific salmon are there?
Is it true that salmon return to spawn in freshwater areas where they were born?
what is the difference between the Atlantic salmon and the Pacific salmon?
What is a kokanee, or silver trout?
Do landlocked Pacific salmon die after spawning?
How large do salmon get?
What is the oldest known age of salmon and steelhead (in completed years)?
Is a steelhead a salmon or a trout?
How old are salmon when they migrate from fresh water to the ocean?
What are salmon fed in a hatchery?
How many of the young salmon released from hatcheries come back as adults?
Why are fishladders constructed?
why are different varieties called lobster?
Does the deepwater northern lobster population differ from that found just off the coast?
How far do lobsters travel?
What color is a lobster's blood?
What is "tomalley"?
What is the coral colored material often seen in a cooked lobster?
How does a lobster grow?
How many times must a lobster molt before it reaches market size?
How many one-pound lobsters are needed for a pound of lobster meat?
How long can a lobster live out of water?
Can a lobster be kept alive in fresh water with ice?
Why does a lobster turn red when cooked?
Have people been poisoned by eatlng lobsters that were allowed to die before being cooked?
Is it true that a dead lobster deteriorates very rapidly?
What happens when a live lobster is frozen?
Is it possible to raise lobsters on a commercial basis?
Where are lobsters caught?
What do lobsters eat?
How is the health of the lobster resource?
Where do lobsters live?
When do lobsters mate?
Can lobsters grow new legs?
Do lobsters have teeth?
Can lobsters smell their food?
Do lobsters lay eggs?
Do many young lobsters survive to old age?
What is the largest lobster ever caught?
I've heard that lobsters molt, but I've never seen a cast-off shell. Why?
Can crabs swim?
How do crabs grow?
What is the difference between soft and hard shell crabs?
How old does a blue crab get?
What is a "coconut crab"? Where do they live?
Is a stone crab harmed when its large claw is broken off?
Are they harmful to oysters?
May humans eat
them?
How do prawns, crayfish, and shrimp differ?
Is there more than one kind of shrimp?
How big do shrimp grow?
How long do shrimp live?
How much shrimp is produced in the United
States,
where is the largest catch taken?
What are the commercially important shrimp
on the east coast of the United States,
what are their ranges?
What is the biggest bivalve mollusk, cephalopod mollusk, and crustacean known to man?
What do oysters and clams eat?
Clams seem to squirt water through their siphons. What purpose does the siphon serve?
What causes a reddish color in the liquor of shucked oysters and clams?
How do clams establish themselves on the sea bottom?
How do clams reproduce?
Which of the clam species is of greatest
commerical importance to the United States,
where is it fished,
what quantites are landed?
How are soft-shell clams harvested?
What is the biggest clam caught and eaten in the United States?
What are oyster borers?
How do oysters produce pearls?
What is oyster spat?
How does a scallop move?
Are any snails commercially caught for food off the coasts of the United States?
What purpose do the holes along the edge of an abalone shell serve?
Are there any poisonous snails?
What is chitin?
How does the consumer know that shellfish are safe to eat?
How unsafe are shellfish from polluted waters?
Will cooking make sewage-polluted shellfish safe to eat?
Is it possible to purify shellfish from sewage polluted water for safe eating?
Do shellfish contain mercury levels dangerous to man's health?
Why is fishing sometimes called angling?
Will fish I catch and release die anyway?
What are factory ships?
Where can I find out about maintaining aquariums?
Do turtles get stranded like
whales?
What is the largest Largest sturgeon on record?
Do sharks have bones?
Do sharks have good eyesight?
Are sharks always hungry?
Are sharks considered to be a fish?
Do sharks only eat meat?
How many senses do sharks have?