Underwater
What is the name of animals that live in the water and have gills to breathe?
What is a fish?
What are the names of the two fish markets in Menemsha?
What are Larsen's fish market and Menemsha Fish Market?
What shellfish is farmed the most on Martha's Vineyard?
What are oysters?
A Japanese dish of rolled up rice, vegetables, seaweed, and fish/shellfish, usually raw.
What is sushi?
A Quahog is:
A) a clam with a very hard shell
B) an oyster with a soft shell
A) a clam with a very hard shell
What is the name for animals that live underwater and have a shell?
What is a shellfish?
What do you need to get from the town before you can start harvesting shellfish?
A shellfish permit.
Which town on MV has the most oyster farms?
What is Edgartown?
There are 12 farms in Katama Bay and 1 in the open ocean.
What are soft-shell clams?
This is the color of lobsters before they are cooked and turn red.
What is brownish? Some lobsters can be blue!
Name a type of shellfish.
Oysters, Lobsters, Clams, Quahogs, Scallops, Mussels, etc.
Name the two fish that are in the title of the Martha's Vineyard Fishing Derby
What are striped bass and bluefish.
What tools do you need to go clamming?
A) a clam rake
B) a basket
C) something to measure them
D) all of the above
D) all of the above
There is debate over eating this roll cold with mayonnaise or hot with melted butter.
What is a lobster roll?
This shellfish filters up to 50 gallons of water a day - so helpful for our waters.
What is an oyster?
What is a bivalve?
A) A shellfish that has a 2 shells around its body connected by a hinge
B) A shellfish that has antennae
A) A shellfish that has 2 shells around its body connected by a hinge.
Bi = two, two shells.
What are the three fish you are allowed to keep in the Derby now?
What are bluefish, bonito, and false albacore.
Instead of throwing away your oyster shells, what can you do with them?
Shell Recycling Program
Compost Them
Give to your chickens
This recipe is made of breadcrumbs, herbs, spices, and crab meat.
What is a crab cake?
This shellfish used to be so plentiful that it was considered "peasant" food, and many people fed them to pigs. Now it is very expensive.
What is lobster? From trash to treasure.
What shellfish are called crustaceans?
What are lobsters, crabs, and shrimp.
Name a pond on Martha's Vineyard where shellfish are harvested.
What is the Sengekontacket, Lagoon, Edgartown Great Pond, Tisbury Great Pond, Menemsha Pond, etc.
What are the name for baby oysters that attach to other oyster shells to grow?
What is spat?
This salty sea vegetable is dry and crunchy, and is usually eaten in sheets.
What is seaweed?
Oysters and other mollusks can make this when something harmful enters their shell and they want to protect themselves.
Hint: they are used for jewelry.
What is a pearl?