Search Results for: Pellets of aquatic invertebrates
, scallops, cockles) are important invertebrates for human consumption as well as key in food chains , being consumed by fish , birds , marine mammals , other vertebrates , and various invertebrates. in touching upon the human desire for beauty, both oysters and freshwater mussels are important for the
production of pearls . on the other hand, as filter feeders, bivalves may also concentrate bacteria , viruses , pesticides, industrial wastes, toxic metals, and petroleum derivatives, and through consumption become vectors of human disease (grzimet ). shipworms (teredinidae) cause bioerosion of human-made...
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