Fish and Shellfish

• Fish are animals that live in _______ and breathe using _______.

• Water goes in through the _________ and out through the _______, which take ________ from the water.

• Most fish swim by moving their tail - called the ______ ______ left and right.

• Fish are animals that live in water and breathe using gills.

• Water goes in through the mouth and out through the gills, which take oxygen from the water.

• Most fish swim by moving their tail - called the caudal fin left and right.

Types of Fish

Mahi Mahi

Flounder Strawberry Grouper

Sardine

Tilapia

Sturgeon

Fish Cuts

• Shrimp are small animals that live on the floor

of oceans. There are over 2,000 different

species of shrimp worldwide. Shrimp are

invertebrates (animals lacking a backbone) that

have a tough exoskeleton.

• Diet: Shrimp are omnivores; they eat plants and

small animals.

• Life Cycle: Female shrimp lay over a thousand

eggs, which are attached to her swimming legs.

The unusual pistol shrimp kills or

stuns its prey by making a very

loud sound with a huge claw with a

moveable, snapping appendage.

• Crustaceans are a group of animals that have a hard exoskeleton, jointed legs, and a segmented body.

• Crustaceans are invertebrates (they lack a backbone)). Most crustaceans live in water, but some live on land. Crustaceans are the most numerous animals in the oceans, but some crustaceans live on fresh water.

Some Characteristics of Crustaceans:

• A hard exoskeleton made of calcium - no internal skeleton.

• The head has two compound eyes, two pairs of antennae, and three pairs of mouthparts.

• A pair of green glands excrete wastes near the base of antennae.

• The abdominal segments have swimmerets (swimming legs)

• The sexes are separate. Eggs are attached to the swimmerets (swimming legs) of the female.

• The circulatory system is open; there is no heart and the "blood" is pumped by vessels into sinuses, and does not flow in a closed loop.

• Lobsters are invertebrates, animals without a

backbone.

• Lobsters are cold-blooded; their body temperature

depends on the temperature of the water.

• Diet: Lobsters are carnivores. Most lobsters are

nocturnal. They are predators that eat crabs, clams,

worms, snails, mussels, flounder, and other lobsters.

• Lobsters continue to grow throughout their lives. As

a lobster grows, it often molts. It eats the old shell.

• The biggest lobster caught

weighed over 44 pounds.

• Lobsters may live to be 100 years old.

Fish Fortune Teller

Turn the colored side down and the white

side up. Fold the paper in half so you

have a triangle. Then unfold it and refold it

the other way.

Cut the small dotted lines between the

white fortune triangles, the ones that go

halfway to the center. Do not cut all the

way to the center!

Fold the corners to the center, one by

one. Like this:

Flip the square over, so that you see the

fortune side:

Then fold each tip into the center.

Now fold your square in half into two

rectangles. Then unfold it and fold it in

half into two rectangles the other way.

With the numbered side up, put one of your hands into the underside while pushing up a little. Once you get one hand into two of the slots of the underside, place your other hand in the other two slots and push up again.