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Types of Seafood and Fish Report
Types of Seafood and Fish Report
Seafood
Seafood
Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as
food by humans, prominently including fish and
shellfish. Shellfish include various species of
molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms.
Shrimp
any of several small, long-
tailed, chiefly marine
crustaceans of the decapod
suborder Natania, certain
species of which are used as
food
Scallops
any of a family (Pectinidae) of
bivalves with two deeply grooved,
convex shells and an earlike wing on
each side of the hinge, that swims by
rapidly snapping its shells together to
expel water in a jetlike manner
Lobster
Lobsters are a family of marine
crustaceans. They have long bodies
with muscular tails, and live in
crevices or burrows on the sea floor.
Three of their five pairs of legs have
claws, including the first pair, which are
usually much larger than the others.
Crab
any of a tribe (Brachyura) of chiefly
marine crustaceans with a short broad
usually flattened carapace, a small
abdomen that curls forward beneath
the body, short antennae, and the
anterior pair of limbs modified as
grasping pincers.
Squid
A squid is a mollusc with an
elongated soft body, large
eyes, eight arms, and two
tentacles in the superorder
Decapodiformes. Like all
other
Fish
are aquatic cold-blooded vertebrates found both at
sea and in freshwater. Many edible fish are great
sources of nutrients, including omega-3 fatty acids,
protein, B vitamins, iodine, and calcium, but fish also
pose a risk of harboring toxins and parasites and
spoil much more quickly than other meats
Salmon
Salmon are named after their runs.
Sockeye salmon swimming upstream in
the annual migration in the Adams
River, British Columbia, Canada. Many
believe that the word “salmon” comes
from the Latin word salmo or salire,
which means “to leap"