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Monterey Bay Aquarium Join us for our ninth Cooking for Solutions celebration May 21-22—the culinary event of the year with great chefs, gourmet cuisine and fine wines. It’s an elegant way to discover how your healthy choices protect the health of the soil, water and ocean wildlife. Events include the signature gala celebration, as well as ...food and wine adventures, cooking demonstrations and a seafood challenge.

Visit our website December 14 for a complete schedule of events and a list of participating chefs, restaurants, wineries and sponsors.

Tickets for members will go on sale January 4, 2010. Tickets for the general public will go on sale January 18, 2010. For more information call (831) 644-7561, and press 2.

Cooking for Solutions May 21-22
The culinary event of the year!
Time:9:00AM Friday, May 21st
Location:Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Julie Packard writes in HuffingtonPost.com: global trade and the future of fish.

Julie Packard: WTO And the Future of Fish
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Solving our global fisheries crisis will require global solutions, and involvement from everyone. Making good choices about the seafood we eat is a great way for each of us to do our part.
Fri at 7:38am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Sustainable Seafood: An Interview with Chef Alex Guarnaschelli.

Sea Notes: Sustainable Seafood: An Interview with Chef Alex Guarnaschelli
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Alex Guarnaschelli is the creator of November'sSeafood Watch Sustainable Seafood Recipe: Baked Clams with Bacon. She's chef of Butter Restaurant in New York City and host of the new Food Network show "Alex’s Day Off." Alex Guarnaschelli, chef at New...
November 25 at 10:22am
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Kristin Jones
Kristin Jones
yes sometimes I'm not likin the bones either, but my tastes have expanded love shrimp
November 25 at 7:56pm
Kristin Jones
Kristin Jones
I a had the cutiest picture of me pregnant with my first child my daughter.....
November 25 at 7:57pm
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Monterey Bay Aquarium This month's recipe: Baked Clams with Bacon, from Alex Guarnaschelli, chef at New York City’s Butter restaurant.

Sustainable Seafood Recipes | Seafood Watch | Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Simple sustainable seafood recipes from America's best chefs brought to you each month by the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch program.
November 24 at 9:41am
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William Tierney
William Tierney
could someone please wipe that scowl off of Alex's face. She's as annoying as Ted Allen.
November 24 at 10:43am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium The recently released white shark has phoned home--and made it on the Today Show!

Sea Notes: White Peacock
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The great white shark made a comeback today. No - not at the back door asking for more mackerel - but featured on the Today show, telling the important story of how tagging and tracking these sharks in the Pacific...
November 23 at 9:39am
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Matthew Crenshaw
Matthew Crenshaw
We're trying to make animal tags much cheaper under a NOAA SBIR so more animals can be tracked like this on Google Earth!
November 24 at 11:05am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium
Here's how you can support the Shark Conservation Act. http://www.capwiz.com/mbayaq/issues/alert/?alertid=13768926&type=TA
November 24 at 12:40pm
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Monterey Bay Aquarium What it's like to feed the new ocean sunfish.

Sea Notes: Feeding the Aquarium’s New Ocean Sunfish
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It’s feeding time for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s new ocean sunfish, or mola mola. Senior aquarist Michael Howard walks out a 20-foot walkway extending over the middle of the million-gallon Outer Bay exhibit. He places a red-and-white striped ball on...
November 19 at 7:41pm
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Meet Executive Director Julie Packard.

From the Executive Director | Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Learn how Executive Director Julie Packard is advancing the Monterey Bay Aquarium's mission of inspiring conservation of the oceans. Includes recent columns, videos and podcasts.
November 18 at 4:25pm
Jonathon Keener
Jonathon Keener
After diving Catalina it is easy to understand how bad the over fishing is in California
November 19 at 9:50am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Aquarium with our “Silver Fishes and New Year’s Wishes” event.

Silver Fishes and New Year's Wishes Event | Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Celebrate New Year's Eve at the Monterey Bay Aquarium! Our
November 17 at 9:47am
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Carole Tangney Sheehy
Carole Tangney Sheehy
I LOVE that aquarium, & wish I could be there - too bad I live on the East coast & don't get out there very often.
November 18 at 10:45am
Mary
Mary
I MISS HOME!
November 19 at 6:00am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Worldwide, one out of every four fish caught is discarded as "bycatch."

Bycatch | Seafood Watch Ocean Issues | Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Learn about bycatch, its effect on ocean health, and what you can do to help. Information from the Seafood Watch program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California.
November 16 at 9:52am
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Samantha Metcalf
Samantha Metcalf
all these practices occur in the us too stephanie. It is estimated that there will be very few edible fish at all by 2011 with our current overfishing practices, fish farms (which we feed fishmeal to), and bycatch problems but no one seems to care about these problems and probably wont until there are no fish left. And bycatch does go to waste ... See Moresean. Ships don't keep what they didn't set out for because that would take too much room on the ship and it would have to port sooner not making new the profit it would originally have made. I did a ten page college paper on this topic.
November 20 at 7:53am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Send your letter of support for a national ocean policy--it only takes a few seconds.

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Take Action for a National Ocean Policy for the U.S. The challenges facing our oceans – from pollution and overfishing to climate change – are greater than at any time in the past. With comprehensive ...
November 13 at 9:01am
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Thanks for the input, Andrea. We tested it and didn't have a problem with Safari 4.0.3. Maybe you could try again?
November 16 at 11:45am
Andrea
Andrea
Hmm, that's strange, I just tried it again and I'm still getting the 'bad request' thing. I'm using Safari 4.0.4.
November 16 at 12:33pm
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Things you can do to learn more about sustainable seafood and spread the word in your community.

What You Can Do | Seafood Watch | Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Choose ocean-friendly seafood and use your buying power to support fishing and farming practices that are environmentally friendly.
November 13 at 8:57am
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Anne Costello
Anne Costello
Just returned from Monterey. I went to the aquarium 3 different days--couldn't stay away form the weedy sea dragons and the leafy green sea dragons. It is such a fantastic exhibit!!
November 13 at 9:48pm
Shirley Espley
Shirley Espley
Also just returned from Monterey. Loved the sea horses and
sea dragons! The whole visit was awesome!
Thu at 8:51pm
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Good news for the brown pelican.

Sea Notes: Not So Pelican Brief
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Great news to report today. The brown pelican has been officially declared recovered and removed from the Endangered Species list! If you live along the California Coast, you will know this to be true. Large squadrons of the amazing, yet...
November 12 at 10:25am
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Megan Dunn
Megan Dunn
Not where I intended to go. Very good news however.
November 13 at 3:43am
Carol
Carol
They surely have recoveed from the devastion from 2008 when they were found dead up and down the coast of California. I am an ametur photographer and went out most days last year and could not find a pelican if someone gave me a million dollors.
Now this year is a different story, a picture is worth a thousand words so to speak.

Pelicans are very intelligant, and sensitve animals, I saw three together earlier this year. One was not able to keep up, they had been flying in a single formation, equal distance apart. When the third one was unable to keep up the other two somehow knew, he had fallen behind. They sat in formation in the bay, while the two healthy brown pelicans stayed with the third one until he slowly drifted out to sea. This was nature again showing it's sensitvie side...
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Not too long after I have seen the pelicans in the Montery Bay area strive. I even have an image of one with a bird in it's mouth, now I have several frames of it, and it is not totally clear to me if it got it my mistake and was trying to expel it out of it's mouth, I have looked at all of the shots, I took it in "blast" and it would be interesting to have someone to give their opinon also.

Give me a few minutes and I will post some very exciting photos of pelicans on my facebook..I am crazy about them.. and seagulll.. for that matter all the animals!..if the Aquarium wants copies, for use please ask, I will be happy to offer them too you in the correct resolution.
November 21 at 9:46am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Video from MBARI: Boneworms on dead whales in Monterey Bay.

Boneworms on dead whales in Monterey Bay
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It sounds like a classic horror story—eyeless, mouthless worms lurk in the dark, settling onto dead animals and sending out green "roots" to devour their bones. In fact, such "boneworms" do exist in the deep sea. ...
November 11 at 9:38am
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Thank you for the lovely poem!
November 12 at 10:39am
Ryan Masters
Ryan Masters
No problem. I once had plans to write a whole book of haiku inspired by the ocean around Monterey. Many of them were inspired by visits to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I used to live right up the street. Keep up the good work!
November 12 at 11:05am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Get to know some amazing birds at our "Feathered Friends" event Nov. 21-22.

Feathered Friends Event | Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Get to know some amazing birds at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's
November 10 at 9:42am
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Jonathan Green
Jonathan Green
Hooters !!!
Let's All Give A Hoot !!
November 11 at 7:08pm
Steven Said
Steven Said
Aquatic penguin owls? Sweet!
November 12 at 4:16am
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Fishing's future depends on habitat.

Habitat Damage | Seafood Watch Ocean Issues | Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Learn about habitat damage, its effect on ocean health, and what you can do to help. Information from the Seafood Watch program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California.
November 10 at 9:36am
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Walter Garcia
Walter Garcia
People might want to reconsider our oceans as being their own personal trash yard.
November 10 at 12:29pm
Cat Campbell
Cat Campbell
I do not like anything to the extreme, and if there are fishing practices that need further regulation, so be it. I just do not agree with the "all fishing is bad and needs to be stopped" that some people have. There is preservation and there is conservation. I believe that conservation best fits the needs of a planet on which we humans live.

... See MoreAnyway, I am not trying to say I like ocean litter or overfishing...but I fish recreationally and I hope to be able to still practice my hobby because it is very important to me. Any other fishermen on here?
November 12 at 2:44pm