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The Blue Marlin
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Vocabulary:
1.Rarity = the state or quality of being rare.
2.Devour = eat (food or prey) hungrily or quickly.
3.Mollusk = an invertebrate of a large phylum which includes snails, slugs, mussels, and octopuses. They have a soft unsegmented body and live in aquatic or damp habitats, and most kinds have an external calcareous shell.
4.Crustacean = an arthropod of the large, mainly aquatic group Crustacea, such as a crab, lobster, shrimp, or barnacle.
5.Spawn = (of a fish, frog, mollusk, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs.
Questions:
1.What kind of fish is blue marlin in the world?
2.Why are blue marlins a highly prized catch and often fished for sport?
3.Where are they distributed?
4.Depict the blue marlin? And how does it spend its time?
5.When does it hunt? What is the majority of its prey?
6.Which is heavier, the female marlin or the male marlin? And how heavy can each grow?
7.How many eggs can a female lay?
8.How long can a female and male marlin live?
9.How fast can they swim and what kind of fish are they?
10.What country fishes blue marlin commercially?
11. Have you seen a real blue marlin? What have you heard about the fish? Share more knowledge about it?
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