Are crawfish fresh or saltwater?
Chef's answer
Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters (to which they are related). In some parts of the United States, they are also known as crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs, or yabbies..
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Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves which are found in all of the world's oceans, although never in fresh water. They are one of very few groups of bivalves to be primarily "free-living", with many species capable of rapidly swimming short distances and even of migrating some distance across the ocean floor..
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One of the main limitations on Lobsters is their inability to recapture salt from their urine. They have very simple excretory systems. In fresh water they quickly lose salt from their blood and die. They also can't handle any resistance to excreting the urine they produce..
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Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves which are found in all of the world's oceans, although never in fresh water. They are one of very few groups of bivalves to be primarily "free-living", with many species capable of rapidly swimming short distances and even of migrating some distance across the ocean floor..
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The beluga sturgeon in Russia is the largest freshwater fish in the world. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North America. The second largest freshwater fish in North America is the alligator gar..
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Their ability to filter helps to improve water quality, but it also means that they can sometimes be toxic to humans. The pollutants they ingest accumulate in their bodies can be dangerous for human consumption. Harvesting and eating freshwater clams found in highly polluted waters is not recommended..
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Although most natural pearls are found in oysters, they also are found in many different species of freshwater mussels or clams all over the world. ... Natural pearls come in a variety of colors. The tones of the freshwater pearls are dictated by the mother shell. White is the most common, followed by pink..
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Distribution: In the Pacific, from Washington State north to Alaska including the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Neah Bay, Sekiu, and Port Angeles..
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