Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 182
But Now during this time, are there any interesting of getting the animals and building the, you the curator of the marine mammals, were there any stories or interesting situations you could share?… Read More
But Now during this time, are there any interesting of getting the animals and building the, you the curator of the marine mammals, were there any stories or interesting situations you could share?… Read More
Short answer is there were no unions at Shedd aquarium. There still are no unions at Shedd aquarium. However, I’m not sure how far back this goes, but there was, there is a union that might come into chat aquarium. And it turns out I found out recently that it… Read More
She goes, I heard, you know, union she aquarium. I’m like, yeah, I just heard that in the news. Read More
Senior management of which I was part of at that time, met about this and said, you know, we don’t want this happening here and we have to make the case to the people that are trying to bring the union in that you realize if the union comes in,… Read More
Can you tell us about unions and how they affected the Aquarium’s development running of it?… Read More
What were the limitations and demands?… Read More
So it was, it was wonderful to gain his respect, eventual friendship and you know, it, I’m glad it way it played out. Read More
But the, the amount I learned was overwhelming and it was just so rewarding. Read More
And more importantly getting to know the players so I could, you know, pick up the phone and ask somebody at another facility, what have you guys done about this?… Read More
And I’m like, what do I know about this?… Read More
You know, and well, Mr. Breaker, da da da da da. And you know, and you can tell it’s bad ’cause a fish even are not eating it. And when he put it in the water, it floats which good, healthy, you know, fresh fish, it would sink and they’d… Read More
That was his focus and I was his guy. So he was sending me, first of all, one of the things he says, I want you to go to every professional marine mammal meeting and I’m going to, like I said, the Aquatic Animal vets. Read More
Your guy keeps rejecting the fishes. So again, I get called up to the, the Wizard of Oz’s office. Read More
It’s like, Jim, what’s going on with this?… Read More
Yes, yes. It started when I was assistant curator of fishes where one of my responsibilities was, for instance, oiling the fish. And I have to admit, I was pretty shy about colon these vendors up there I didn’t know anything about. And, you know, asking, you know, for best… Read More
And they were sending us a product that was less than desirable. We’d get boxes of smelt and it’d be freezer burned, meaning it was dried and kind of crinkled. It was freezer, you know, the animal tissues. It shrunk. I think their attitude was, I got to fish, eat… Read More
And I got to a point where I started rejecting shipments and finally the head of pick fisheries calls Bill Breaker and says, Hey, what the heck’s going on over there?… Read More
Yeah. Everything for this exhibit?… Read More
Yes. Yes. Are you speaking of the Oceanarium exhibit?… Read More
Well that’s because we are creating hiding places for them. And we set the tank up, you got the water up, you got the water chemistry good, you’d introduced the little guys first. So they get to know where to hide and then eventually the sharks go in. And not… Read More