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Edible molluscs are harvested from saltwater, freshwater, and the land, and include numerous members of the classes Gastropoda (snails), Bivalvia (clams, scallops, oysters etc.), Cephalopoda (octopus and squid), and Polyplacophora (chitons). Many species of molluscs are eaten worldwide, either cooked or raw.
Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish.Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus and squid), crustaceans (e.g. shrimp, crabs, and lobster), and echinoderms (e.g. sea cucumbers and sea urchins).
Graph showing the decline in the global capture production (in tonnes) of the common octopus over recent years (source FAO [14]). The aquaculture potential of several octopuses species has been investigated in recent years, including Octopus maya (red octopus), [15] Octopus bimaculoides (California two-spot octopus), [16] Octopus ocellatus (now re-named Amphioctopus fangsiao) [17], Octopus ...
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Since 1993 squid has been the #1 fishery in California with landings of 118,000 tons [vague] and $41 million in 2000. The population fluctuates greatly with the El Niño . During these warm water and nutrient poor years landings can disappear entirely in certain areas.
California mussels displace most other species unless ochre starfish control their numbers How starfish changed modern ecology – Nature on PBS The concept of a foundation species was introduced in 1972 by Paul K. Dayton , [ 150 ] who applied it to certain members of marine invertebrate and algae communities.
None of them can tolerate fresh water, but the brief squid, Lolliguncula brevis, found in Chesapeake Bay, is a notable partial exception in that it tolerates brackish water. [9] Cephalopods are thought to be unable to live in fresh water due to multiple biochemical constraints, and in their >400 million year existence have never ventured into ...
A group of friends exploring the waters off La Jolla Cove on Saturday came across a sea creature unlike anything they'd ever seen: a 12-foot-long rare fish from the depths of the ocean.