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  • Aquarium's Great White Kills Other Sharks
    In separate incidents, the world's only great white shark on display attacks two soupfin sharks at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Both of the soupfins died of their wounds. Hear Randy Kochevar, a biologist with the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
  • California Aquarium Hosts Great White
    The Monterey Bay Aquarium in northern California has the first ever Great White shark exhibit. Rebecca Roberts reports looks at efforts to study the shark and keep it on display.
  • Killer Shrimp
    A four-inch long killer shrimp has been destroying prized sea snails, barnacles and hermit crabs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Linda talks to Senior Aquarist David Cripe about the vicious shrimp that invaded a 13-hundred gallon tank at the aquarium.
  • A lobster rears its claws after being caught off Spruce Head, Maine, Aug. 31, 2021. A group of Maine businesses and trade groups filed a lawsuit against a California aquarium Monday, March 13, 2023, for recommending seafood customers avoid buying lobster.
    The Maine lobster industry sues California aquarium over a do-not-eat listing
    Industry groups are suing the Monterey Bay Aquarium for defamation, arguing that their prized catch shouldn't be on a "red list" published by Seafood Watch, a conservation program it operates.
  • Senior Aquarist at the Santa Monica Pier Jose Bacallo prepares a marine mammal artifact for bay-induced maceration.
    Small aquariums can teach too, operators say
    California is rich in big aquariums attached to accredited research institutions like Scripps in San Diego County or the Monterey Bay Aquarium up north. But, they're not the only places to learn about the sea. Piers along Santa Monica Bay are also home to smaller aquaria that local organizations operate.
  • Plastic debris clog the mouth of the Los Angeles River in Long Beach in 2002.
    Aquariums pool resources to fight global plastic
    Nineteen aquariums — including three in California — have partnered to create the Aquarium Conservation Partnership (ACP) to address plastic pollution in oceans and freshwater sources.
  • BELLINGHAM, WA - JULY 8: Customers shop for marijuana at Top Shelf Cannabis, a retail marijuana store, on July 8, 2014 in Bellingham, Washington. Top Shelf Cannabis was the first retail marijuana store to open today in Washington state, nearly a year and a half after the state's voters chose to legalize marijuana. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)
    Cracking down on unlicensed cannabis shops, OC voting centers, the Angels in Long Beach?
    L.A. City Council votes to crack down on unlicensed cannabis shops, voting centers come to Orange County, will the Angels fly to Long Beach?
  • The deep ocean is filled with sea creatures like giant larvaceans. They're actually the size of tadpoles, but they're surrounded by a yard-wide bubble of mucus that collects food — and plastic.
    Microplastics Have Invaded The Deep Ocean — And The Food Chain
    Giant gyres of plastic in the ocean grab headlines, but it's the tiny bits of plastic that scare scientists. And they've made their way everywhere, a new study finds — including in our seafood.
  • This species of dragonfish can grow to just under 7 inches long and can be often found 1,000 feet or more below the ocean's surface.
    Researchers spot a rare type of dragonfish at 1,000 feet deep
    Scientists in Monterey Bay, Calif., found a seldom-seen species of dragonfish swimming nearly 1,000 feet below the ocean's surface.
  • Prosecutors Net Leopard-Shark Smugglers
    Federal officials break up a smuggling ring in California that pulled thousands of baby leopard sharks out of the San Francisco Bay. The man accused of running the ring is a church pastor.
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