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Question
Use your brain power!
Think about all the foodstuffs obtained from the sea. Find more information and write ten lines about them.
Solution
- Many marine organisms inhabit seas. Some of these form our food.
- Various edible varieties of fish are caught from the seas.
- There are good-quality proteins and fatty acids in the fish. Therefore, it is a nutritive food.
- Shell fish varieties such as crabs, prawns, and lobsters are favourite food items worldwide Prawns are abundantly available in the Indian waters; therefore, we get lots of foreign exchange through the export of prawns.
- Bivalves, squids, and oysters are also eaten as delicacies.
- Algae from the seas are also eaten in the Asian countries, though not in India.
- Agar is the substance made from marine algae, which are used in jellies and puddings.
- Salt is made from the seawater.
- In some countries, potable water is made from the seawater by special processes.
- Young ones of prawns and fish are used for the aquaculture.
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