Monterey Bay Salmon & Trout Project

It's been quite a week for jellyfish fans. These spineless, brainless beauties have been all over the news, all over the world. Locally, long-distance swimmer Bruckner Chase made it across Monterey Bay last week to raise awareness of the oceans...

“Tango gets a fish!” Mika Yoshida, aviculturist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, calls out each time a Magellanic penguin (Spheniscus magellanicus) takes a small fish from her hand. Tango—who came from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil—tips her head back and the...

Imagine if the first task of your day was to feed shrimp to an octopus, unload a truckload of live sardines, or don a wetsuit and swim with sharks. Welcome to the workaday world of our aquarists, whose lives are...