Salmon Road Show Rolls into the LA Area
With the support of a dozen business and organizational sponsors, Save Our Wild Salmon is hitting the road this summer with the 2007 Extinction Stops Here! Road Show for Salmon Recovery. On Saturday, July 14, FIN, a giant 25-foot King Salmon, and his handlers will make a stop at the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
From there, the road show, which started in Oregon, will continue its way through Arizona and Nevada to raise visibility for the plight of endangered salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake Rivers and build support for removing the four lower Snake River dams in Washington State.
A traffic-stopping, 25-foot-long, two-ton, hand-crafted King Salmon, FIN is the star of the Extinction Stops Here tour. Children can climb aboard and explore interactive exhibits about watershed ecosystems and the salmon life cycle, while adults can learn about what it will take to recover endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead to healthy, abundant and sustainable populations and restore declining West Coast fisheries.
Nursery welcomes 300,000 babies
Two pregnant lobsters were retrieved on one of Cabrillo Marine Aquarium’s observation and collecting expeditions in June. The lobsters appeared to be approximately four years of age and almost near the end of their five-week pregnancy.
On June 30, one of the two lobsters released approximately 300,000 eggs. These baby California spiny lobsters are a great addition to the Aquarium’s Aquatic Nursery Crustacean Breeding Program. Crustaceans that have been successfully bred and raised in the past by the nursery’s research staff include: red rock shrimp; bay shrimp; box crabs; and red king crabs. This is the second time the aquarium has had pregnant lobsters and lobster babies.
Only two other facilities in the country have been successful in raising baby California spiny lobsters, and Cabrillo Marine Aquarium hopes to be the third.
The aquarium is open to the public Tuesday through Friday 12 noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Cabrillo Marine aquarium is located at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro at 3720 Stephen M. White Drive. The Aquarium is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
