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Clausidium dissimile is a species of copepod that has been found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts from Massachusetts to Florida. They are found on the bodies of mud shrimp (a.k.a. ghost shrimp) of the family Callianassidae, or from water collected from mud shrimp burrows.
Litopenaeus setiferus lives in estuaries and from the littoral zone to water with a depth of 100 feet (30 m) in the Atlantic, or up to 260 feet (79 m) in the Gulf of Mexico. [3] Litopenaeus setiferus is an omnivore ; in Lake Pontchartrain , it feeds chiefly on the seagrass Vallisneria americana and detritus . [ 4 ]
Marine shrimp farming is an aquaculture business for the cultivation of marine shrimp or prawns [Note 1] for human consumption. Although traditional shrimp farming has been carried out in Asia for centuries, large-scale commercial shrimp farming began in the 1970s, and production grew steeply, particularly to match the market demands of the United States, Japan and Western Europe.
Gulf Specimen Marine Lab has worked to preserve coastal wetlands and in particular was directly involved in the preservation of 35,000 acres of wetlands in the Florida Panhandle and the Florida Big Bend region through government lobbying, appearances at public meetings, television and radio appearances, and popular articles and books about marine wetlands.
"Eating too much sodium pushes water out of the blood vessel into the tissue. The intravascular volume (the blood inside the vessels) depletes, and the kidneys sense there’s a lack of fluid ...
Farfantepenaeus aztecus is a species of marine penaeid shrimps found around the east coast of the US and Mexico. [2] They are an important commercial species in the US. The FAO refers to them as the northern brown shrimp; other common names, used in the US, are brown shrimp, golden shrimp, red shrimp or redtail shrimp.
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Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Louisville, Ohio State University, Florida Gulf Coast University William Mitsch (born March 29, 1947) is an ecosystem ecologist and ecological engineer who was co-laureate of the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize in August 2004 as a result of a career in wetland ecology and restoration, ecological ...