New creature for you guys today @pendergastclass! A bivalue, a type of clam! Maybe you can figure out what kind it is! They are in the deep sea. One tried to eat a crabs foot!

Whoops that should read bivalve! Bivalve describes sea creatures with two shells like scallops and mussels!

Now here is something cool! The ocean has plants just like the land! Does it remind you of something you eat? Maybe something you have in a salad?

I got to meet someone very special yesterday! A female snowcrab! Did you know that all of the snowcrab we eat are males? All female snow crab are returned to the water to continue to reproduce! They are very small compared to the males, so they don’t often come up in the pots

A video of a female snowcrab. You can see how she uses her claws to bring food to her mouth. She isn’t eating right now, that I can see, but crabs continue to do this movement out of water. They also use their claws to defend themselves.

Crab can only reach their mouth with their claws, so if you hold them from behind they can’t pinch you. Crab are very strong and it hurts a lot to be pinched! You have to be quick when handling them. I have never been fully pinched!

The deep ocean has a variety of starfishes, including this plump multicoloured specimen with six arms! The little tubes on the underside are it’s feet! It uses the feet to move around and attach to things.

Another special crab visitor! I’m not sure what species this is. Dad said Toad Crab, Ernie said rock crab! This crab is a different shape and colour than snow crab! It also moves differently, and gets much sleepier out of water than snow crab.

My lense was dirty but I have some pictures of this crab ‘standing up’. You can also see it’s got feelers on its snout.

Very fascinating crab in comparison to a snow crab!

Second to snowcrab, seagulls are the most common animals I see when I am fishing! There are two species of gulls that chase the boat. Herring gulls, called blueys, and the great black backed gull, called saddle back! Gulls are scavengers and love to eat fish guts and old bait!

I fish for crab and codfish in Placentia Bay, which has hundreds of small islands that were once populated with thousands of people in many of communities that were relocated in various Resettlement Programs. These are all pictures of Long Island

Long Island still has many cabins and summer homes where the people who were born there return. Haystack is also on Long Island, that’s where my Pop Paul was from. The blue dot is where I live now, in Come By Chance where he resettled. I live in the house he built.

If you want to learn more about Haystack, Memorial University has a whole webpage with photos about it!

https://mha.mun.ca/haystack/intro.html

I composed this thread specifically for the grade six class of @pendergastclass, but any educator is welcome to use it. Please remember to give me credit! My name is fine, as my twitter handle isn’t always just about fish. :)