Freshwater fish

According to DeGraaf & Yamasaki, green heron’s habitats are found in a variety of freshwater and saltwater habitats that are primarily shrub or forested wetlands. They are also found in brushy areas that are margins of slow-moving rivers, lakes, and ponds. Frequently inhabits marshes, beaver’s ponds, salt marshes, mudflats, harbors, and human-created canals and ditches. To feed, they have to be near wooded wetlands near shallow bodies for feeding. These waters should be abundant in small fishes,…

way down to Florida. The striped bass mostly live in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, but can also live in Long Island Sound. Striped bass live in the pelagic zone (all of the ocean, not near the sea floor). Striped bass live in saltwater, but swim to freshwater to spawn in late-March to early-June. Striped bass prefer…

Great White and the Basking Shark, sharks that skate along the ocean floor are known as benthic sharks, those sharks are known as the Woebegone, Angle shark and Zebra Horn Shark. The Bull Shark frequently leaves its oceanic habitat and travels into freshwater rivers, such as the Mississippi, which has actually needed to be equipped with special means of stopping these animals from swimming miles up (Defenders.org,…

Overfishing: the practice of commercial and non-commercial fishing which depletes a fishery by catching so many adult fish that there aren’t enough remaining to breed and replenish the population. Currently, fishing operations around the world are two to three times larger than what our oceans can sustain. Our combined global fishing capacity, or the amount of fish that can be taken by a single unit whether that be a fisherman or a trawler, is enough to be evenly expanded over at least 4 planets…

people. • More Canadians live in the Lake Ontario watershed than any other watershed in the country. • Lake Ontario never completely freezes because it is so deep. • Lake Ontario is one of the 5 Great Lakes, which comprise 20% of the world’s surface freshwater. • Lake Ontario is the 14th largest lake in the world. • Water from the Great Lakes flows through Lake Ontario, before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean • Lake Ontario is the most threatened Great Lake. • Iroquois and Huron First Nations…

Lionfish are venomous Marine fish found in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean. The fish have started invading the Atlantic waters. The Lionfish pose a great danger to the native ecology, and they might destabilize the ecology. They have a large appetite and are well adapted to evade their prey. The lionfish belong to kingdom Animalia and the Phylum Chordata. The fish lives in deep waters in the Coral feeding on the reef fish. The fish develop at a very fast rate such that a fingerling attains…

beginning of man. According to Samford Singer, gastropods appeared about 600 million years ago [2]. Today, there are thousands different species of snails varying from marine, freshwater, and land. All these species plays a huge role in a diverse ecosystem. They provide important food source to many different predator such as birds, fish, rodents, etc. Perhaps the most common snail is the garden snail, Helix aspersa. The body of a snail consist of foot, head, and a coiled visceral mass which…

to the relationship of life history to habitat. The objective of this experiment was to collect a sample of Eastern mosquitofish and perform a vertical life history analysis. Fish were captured and measured around Hennington pond at FIU, and data was compiled into a vertical life history table. This table revealed that the fish have relatively short life times and high reproduction rate,…

examples of domestic kind. All fish share 2 properties one being their habitat, and second being they have backbones.Which is also known as vertebrates. Fish are cold blooded,water-dwelling, vertebrates. The combo of gills, fins, and factor of living in water differentiates them from other creatures. Researchers believe that there are more than 24,000 types of fish. Researchers have grouped about 22,000 breeds of these cold blooded vertebrates. I will be discussing 5 types of fish out of tons.…

Introduction Non-indigenous or non-native species are species that have been introduced into an area or region that is not their normal habitat or environment. These species are sometimes very invasive and will take over the areas that they inhabit. There can be very negative effects from the introduction of non-indigenous species into certain environments. The ecosystem of an area is likely to be compromised from certain aggressive and invasive species. The lionfish is one of those. The…