Aquaculture

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Any of various edible decapod crustaceans (plural) (6)
  2. 4. A water solution of ___ (7)
  3. 5. Small ___ food and game fish of eastern United States streams (11)
  4. 9. Decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded (plural) (5)
  5. 10. How hot or cold something is (11)
  6. 12. Muddiness created by stirring up sediment or having foreign particles suspended (9)
  7. 14. Gas in the air that we need to breathe (6)
  8. 15. Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae (7)

Down

  1. 1. Preparing or putting through a prescribed ___ (10)
  2. 2. Rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food (11)
  3. 3. Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae (7)
  4. 6. Lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish (3)
  5. 7. The exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money (9)
  6. 8. Any animal that lives by preying on other animals (plural) (9)
  7. 11. Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes (5)
  8. 13. A smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster (plural) (6)