Museum Entrance

1. Welcome to the Museum of The Weakfish Artifact 22 Museum Entrance Artifact 23 Back Wall Artifact Effect Plants+ Animals Human Impact Habitats Delaware Bay Fun Facts Curator’s Offices

2. Curator’s Office Cheyenne, Vanessa, Adreaona, and Jayron We worked in a group to create this museum. Cheyenne= Human impact local and global, and fun facts. Vanessa= Effects on plants and Animals. Adreaona= Habitat. And Jayron= Importance to the Delaware Bay ecosystem. Place your picture here. BPSK12.com Return to Entry

3. Habitat Room 1 Artifact 2 Artifact 1 Artifact 4 Artifact 3 Return to Entry

4. Human impact Room 2 Artifact 6 Artifact 5 Artifact 8 Artifact 7 Return to Entry

5. Effect Plants+ Animals Room 3 Artifact 10 Artifact 9 Artifact 12 Artifact 11 Return to Entry

6. Delaware Bay Room 4 Artifact 14 Artifact 13 Artifact 16 Artifact 15 Return to Entry

7. Fun Facts Room 5 Artifact 18 Artifact 17 Artifact 20 Artifact 19 Artifact 21 Return to Entry

8. Domain The weakfish live in salt water and coastal waters in the Delaware Bay, and the Chesapeake Bay, during spring and summer, when the coastal weakfish population migrates northward. Return to Exhibit

9. The Shallows Schools of adult weakfish live throughout the bay, but are most often found in shallow, sandy-bottom areas. In autumn, weakfish leave the Bay to migrate southward Return to Exhibit

10. Seaweed They like to live in tall seaweed. Adults are mostly found near the periphery of eelgrass beds. Return to Exhibit

11. Delaware Bay The Weakfish will swim in the deeper waters, especially the older weakfish who need deeper waters so they can move. Return to Exhibit

12. Dishes People cook weakfish into many dishes, like soup, stir fry, pasta, etc. This also causes the numbers to go down. Return to Exhibit

13. Mounting People will catch weakfish and hang them on walls, it`s called mounting. Return to Exhibit

14. Fishing People fish for weakfish to eat and decorate on walls. This can lead to over fishing causing the weakfishes numbers to go down, eventually going to compete extinction. Return to Exhibit

15. Fish Farms People create fish farms to make populations of certain fish types to go up. Also people think because weakfish reproduce faster than other fish they will not go extinct as soon as other fish. (It may or may not be true.) Return to Exhibit

16. Killifishes killifish northern representative, especially the genus, of the Cyprinodontidae or toothed minnows, a family that includes also the topminnows. And Weakfish eat them. Return to Exhibit

17. Striped Bass The striped bass, also called Atlantic striped bass, stripers, linesiders, rock, pimpfish, or rockfish). They are also found in the Delaware Bay. They are predators of the weakfish. Return to Exhibit

18. Bluefin Tuna The Northern bluefin tuna is a species of tuna in the Scombridae family. It is variously known as the Atlantic bluefin tuna, or giant bluefin tuna. Atlantic bluefin are native to both the western and eastern Atlantic Ocean, as well as the Mediterranean Sea. Atlantic bluefin have become extinct in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. They kill weakfish. Return to Exhibit

19. Silversides The Atlantic silverside, is one of the most common fish in the Chesapeake Bay and in the Delaware Bay. It is a common subject of scientific research because has a sensitivity to environmental changes. The are eaten by weakfish. Return to Exhibit

20. Most Important Fish The Weakfish (Cynoscion regalis) has been one of the most important fish in fisheries along the East Coast of the United States since the 1800s. Return to Exhibit

21. The State Fish The Weakfish is Delaware`s state fish, even though you are still allowed to catch and eat them. Return to Exhibit

22. Abundance The species’ greatest abundance is in the Middle Atlantic right from New York to North Carolina, (and of course the Delaware Bay.) Return to Exhibit

23. The 1900`s Coastwide abundance of weakfish has fluctuated largely since the early 1900s and has been subjected to heavy exploitation. Return to Exhibit

24. The Reason For Its Name The weak fish is called the weakfish because if you pull to hard when fishing the hook will rip out of it`s mouth. They even have special fishing gear incase the hook rips out of it`s mouth the fins will be caught just in case. Return to Exhibit

25. Description The weakfish is a sleek-bodied fish with a dark olive back, iridescent blue and copper sides, and a silvery white belly. Return to Exhibit

26. Age and Size they can live 12-17 years old that’s a long time for a fish! Plus they can grow 12-36 inches large and 6-18 pounds. Return to Exhibit

27. Croaking Like a Frog Males produce a croaking sound by vibrating specially adapted muscles against their swim bladder Return to Exhibit

28. Weakfish This picture shows how a weakfish looks like in real life. Return to Exhibit

29. How Big? This picture shows how big weakfish can get. Return to Entrance

30. Drawing This is a drawing of a weakfish. Usually their fins are more yellow than this though. Return to Entrance

31. Out of Water How the weakfish looks dried off. This is only a another drawing ((It`s fins are also supposed to be more yellow than this.)) Return to Exhibit