Dissecting a Dogfish ( And Finding a Hook)

Today, my sister and I got to dissect a dog fish for our science. We got to see the inside of the shark, and we were looking at what it ate, and mine had a piece of fishing line with two hooks on it! I guess it was part of one of those really long lines with hundreds of hooks on them which animals get tangled in. I am going to keep it so I can remember that I found it inside a dog fish. I will hopefully get some pictures on here that my mom took.

Shark Eye Shells

Varieties of Neverita Duplicata

Neverita duplicata, or shark eyes, are a kind of snail that live in the shells shown above. I have honestly never seen a live one, but I have lots of empty shells that I find on the beach. They come in a variety of sizes and colors like the big one on the top left, and the small one on the lower right. Or the striped one on the top right. The most common colors are the colors that the top left one, and the lower left one have. The striped one is the only striped shark eye I have seen.

Mote Summit

A few weeks ago, I went to a summit at the Mote. It started with an introduction where you wrote down something that you wanted to do to help the oceans. I wrote about a documentary that I am planning on making. Then I went to four different groups to learn about something. The first one was about making art with trash like what I do with some of the trash that I find on the beach. The second group was about marketing and money, like that some companies will say that they are green and good for the environment, but green is a color and not all the thing that say they are green are really green. Then I went to the thirdgroup that talked about branding, not what some people might do to cows, but about brands and the mistakes that some branders make. The last one was about marine debris, and the effects that fishing line has on marine life.