By Christopher Peake
Green Right Now
Aquariums are wonderful places to spend a summer day: if the weather is cool you can stay outdoors, if it’s hot there are indoor exhibits. Menacing sharks, beautifully-colored fish, gliding sea turtles, manta rays, sea snakes, sea horses, penguins and birds and river otters and performing orcas and porpoises all represent what is most beautiful and exciting about the waters of Planet Earth.
But they also represent a world that is disappearing quicker than we thought possible, and this is where aquariums hold a key to the future of water creatures.
Aquariums have realized that they must conduct research and they must also show us what is alive, what is dying and what we can do to balance it all. And so they tie their exhibits and their activities back to conservation, and tell us how we can help.
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June 4th, 2009
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Get out your blue duds and put on your educator’s hat next Monday to participate in the first ever World Oceans Day on June 8.
Organizers are asking everyone who shares concerns about the decline of the oceans – which are being taxed from overfishing and industrial and agricultural pollutants as well as by climate change –to “Wear Blue and Tell Two” on that day.
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Related Topics: · Monterey Bay Aquarium, National Aquarium, The Ocean Project, Wear Blue and Tell Two, World Oceans Day
April 27th, 2009
By Christopher Peake
Green Right Now
For most of us, walking into a seafood store is an exercise in both ignorance and hope: we’re ignorant of what’s available but we hope we’ll leave with what we want. We all know fish come in two colors: the red one is salmon and the rest are white. Here is what you should know about fish:
Mark Musatto, a partner at Airline Seafood in Houston, says “There are three basic feelings I want every customer to have when they enter my store: they should feel, smell and see the freshness; notice that fresh fish has a sheen and a translucency and I want customers to tell me how they plan to cook their fish and we can talk about the best fish for that method.
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Related Topics: · American Albacore Fishing Association, bass, endangered fish, Environmental Defense Fund, lobster, local dining, Mercury, Monterey Bay Aquarium, oysters, pollock, Salmon, seafood, Seawatch, shrimp, Sushi, tuna
