We spent the day at the aquarium. First we walked around and later we had a behind the scenes tour. We learned about the food they feed the fish: krill, squid shrimp, and clam tongue. Our tour guide talked about the 120,000 gallon shark tank. The fishes do not eat each other because they eat well everyday. The sharks have never bit any person there. We were surprised when Traci told us how much time the workers spend time cleaning the tanks. We also got to see the sea otter family. We were told the baby was found when he was one day old and was adopted by another adult otter. She thinks it was her baby and is raising it. The Monterey Bay aquarium has conservation programs with other zoos and aquariums.
After that, we walked along historic cannery row where they used to can fruits, vegetables and fish. We ate at Bubba Gump, a restaurant in the movie Forrest Gump.
DID YOU KNOW?Husbandry means work and help with animals.
Octopus can figure it out how an open a jar by itself. Octopus is very smart.
They put 200 pounds of seafood in storage a day.
Some fishes eat 11pounds a day.
Part of the outside aquarium have no roof they just have direct sun, some fishes can live up to 26 years.
Kelp can grow 12 feet per day!
Sheephead fish that start out as a female fish and then change into a male fish!
John Steinbeck wrote a novel called Cannery row about life in the town and its characters.
Monterey Bay is one of the most bio-diverse places in the world!
