And the best thing is the fish quality is so good. My wife, who would never eat fish, loves the fish now every week. It’s a good fresh product. I don’t know how they do it. We’re far from any ocean. There’s some that come from the Great Lakes like… Read More
And if you’re in a restaurant, you ask the wait staff person it, where did this come from?… Read More
I don’t know that it’s got widespread acceptance. Most people are unfamiliar with it. But there are websites where you can actually, you know, call up an app and if you’re in a restaurant it’ll tell you, you know, these fish are okay. Unfortunately it gets into some fisheries are… Read More
Yes, yes. We shouldn’t Be, Yeah, that one, we have a whole program that we tried to develop our own little wallet card, but we realized, you know, Monterey Bay Aquarium has taken the lead on this. They have a staff of, I wanna say 15 or 20 people that… Read More
So the Shedd has been successful in talking to people about the type of fish that are endangered and what they could eat?… Read More
It’s just, you know, it’s noxious and to some degree it’s, it’s not good for animals. So. Read More
But I’m like, yeah, well what about the rest of the neighborhood?… Read More
So it’s, you know, it that’s, you know, one of those things that I think enlightens people, hopefully they practice, you know, what we’re advising them. Plastic pollution is a huge thing. Now. We’ve tried to work with some municipalities as far as getting rid of plastic bags, like at… Read More
Well, you know, it gets into the, the overflow issues, you know, with a heavy rainfall, the combined sewer and street overflow, I mean water where unfortunately some houses would have an overflow into their basements where you might have sewage coming up type of thing. Just kind of informing… Read More
That was part of a newer conservation department and that would’ve been, that probably kicked off by the former curator of fishes, Roger Ec. He got into the very early stages of developing a conservation department. And out of that became not only conservation of resources, but also conservation of… Read More
Why is that of concern?… Read More
How did that all come about?… Read More
There’s special life support that’s required for an octopus. Not all do well, you know, in the confines of our exhibitory, either some thrive and they’re all over the place. Others just kind of hold up in a corner and look kind of shriveled up, which is, you know, not… Read More
But also they’ll come and they’ll grab your arm. They kind of come up here and they’ll feel you and they’ll allow you to pet them a little bit. Of course, when you feed ’em, they usually back into their exhibit. But it’s a, it’s a challenging animal and they’re… Read More
Like how did the pet trade get permission to sell these things to the public?… Read More
You wouldn’t see ’em commonly, but you did see them in like wholesalers, places we would most commonly keep, you could keep oc octopus vulgaris, which is very common, gets to be about that long. And the most recently, the giant Pacific octopus can, if you’ve got a big one,… Read More
We have since replaced with plastic pipes, so that’s not an issue. But the water chemistry has to be very good. The temperature is a tight requirement. They giant Pacific octopus need colder water. I think the maximum we held ’em with was 55 degrees Fahrenheit. And just to see… Read More
But I’m not aware of anyone that’s been able to exhibit those at all for any degree of time. I have heard of seal camps that have been brought to the surface. Their, their time at that level wasn’t long. Read More
They are a challenge. And yes, we have been successful. We even had a little blue ring octopus that are highly venomous. I mean, arm to arm. They’re about that big. But they have beautiful, like iridescent blue rings on their body. They, they have a venom that if they… Read More
It’s not like a permanent exhibit animal. So Is our octopus difficult to maintain in captivity and has the Shedd done it?… Read More