Promotions & Events
We’ve just released a benchmark research report, The State of Seafood report. It takes a comprehensive look at how new commitments by consumers, major buyers and the fishing community are improving global prospects for securing a sustainable seafood supply and protecting ocean ecosystems.
How can you eat more seafood for your health and protect ocean ecosystems? We’ve got the answer. Working with the Environmental Defense Fund and scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health, we’ve created a "Super Green" list of wild and farmed seafood that’s good for people and the oceans.
November 21-22, Sat.-Sun.
(10 a.m.-6 p.m.)
Get to know some amazing birds this Thanksgiving at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's "Feathered Friends" event on Saturday and Sunday, November 21 and 22. The weekend of activities highlights animals with beaks, wings and feathers—including the Aquarium's blackfooted penguins, Laysan albatross and shorebirds from our aviary.
December 31, Thurs.
(9 p.m.-1 a.m.)
Celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Aquarium! Our “Silver Fishes and New Year’s Wishes” adults-only event promises to be as magical as ever. At night the Aquarium shimmers with a special aura, and on New Year’s Eve our live exhibits are even more mesmerizing. Includes music, dancing, food and free gifts.
Our ninth Cooking for Solutions celebration—the culinary event of the year—takes place May 21-22. Tickets go on sale in January, so save the date!
Exhibit Updates
It’s feeding time for the Aquarium’s new ocean sunfish, or mola mola. Senior Aquarist Michael Howard walks out a 20-foot walkway extending over the middle of the million-gallon Outer Bay Exhibit and places a red-and-white striped ball on the surface.
Since opening on April 6, The Secret Lives of Seahorses special exhibition has become one of the most popular in the history of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. It’s also been a labor of love for the Aquarium’s husbandry staff.
A young female white shark on exhibit since August 26 was tagged and returned to the wild shortly after sunrise November 4. It marks the fifth time that the Aquarium has exhibited a white shark and returned it to the wild. The shark was healthy and feeding at the time of release, and an electronic data tag will track its movements.
Just hours after closing the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s popular “Wild About Otters” special exhibition, workers erect temporary walls and a flurry of activity descends. Where visitors once stood, now there’s only dust, piles of debris and a steady stream of Aquarium staff packing boxes and pushing hand trucks. What happens when an exhibit ends? Where do all the animals, plants and props go?
Just two days after being released into Elkhorn Slough, otter 451 is struggling. Confused and hungry, he starts pacing back and forth in narrow channels, looking for food. At one point, he tries to hike overland to get to another part of the Slough.
Take Action for the Oceans
Each month we bring you a delicious (and sustainable) seafood recipe created by one of the country's best chefs. This month's recipe is Baked Clams with Bacon from Alex Guarnaschelli, Chef at Butter restaurant in New York City.
Global Trade and the Future of Fish
Writing in HuffingtonPost.com, Julie reports on her trip to Geneva, where she asked trade negotiators to keep the oceans in mind.
A landmark sustainable seafood bill sponsored by the Monterey Bay Aquarium has just been signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Under AB 1217, California fisheries can get financial assistance to meet international certification standards for seafood sustainability and market their products as sustainably caught in California.
Our updated app uses your phone’s GPS to automatically determine the right seafood guide for your location, and lets you sort seafood by rank. If you've got another kind of mobile device, just log on to mobile.seafoodwatch.org and you'll be automatically directed to our online pocket guides, just in time to order your next seafood meal.
Aquarium News
The Monterey Bay Aquarium and Santa Monica Seafood, the largest seafood distributor in the southwest, have entered into a five-year partnership under which Santa Monica Seafood will shift its purchases toward sustainable sources. The Aquarium's Seafood Watch program will provide scientific research, support chef outreach efforts, and help Santa Monica Seafood find sustainable suppliers.
“The oceans are changing, and there’s no time to lose in reversing the trends we've set in motion in recent decades,” says Julie Packard, executive director of the Aquarium. Visit our new page to find out more about Julie and how she’s helping fulfill our mission of inspiring conservation of the oceans.
It sounds like a classic horror story—eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such "boneworms" do exist in the deep sea. After planting several dead whales on the seafloor, a team of biologists recently announced that as many as 15 different species of boneworms may live in Monterey Bay alone.
Brilliant and seemingly glowing, the bloodybelly comb jelly comes in different shades of red but always has a blood-red stomach. This species has only recently come to the attention of scientists, thanks to robotic submersible vehicles operated by our sister organization, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
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"Big news on the great white shark front today involving the young shark we've had on exhibit at the aquarium and publication of major findings about the lives of adult great white sharks off the California coast. First, the bittersweet:...  "
November 16, 2009
Twice the size of Texas: Thoughts on the great Pacific garbage patch. (4.1 mins)
Beautiful Mandarinfish
Mon, 14 Sep 2
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