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Seattle, WA—The Seattle Aquarium is proud to announce a three-part video series, Stories from the Salish Sea, developed with generous financial support from the James M. Lea Foundation and in partnership with a local visual storytelling company, Soulcraft Allstars. 

Seattle, WA—The Seattle Aquarium welcomed back Sekiu (pronounced: see-queue), a northern sea otter, on December 14, 2021. Sekiu was born at the Seattle Aquarium on January 14, 2012 and has spent the last four years at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium, where she was a companion for the zoo’s southern sea otter, Libby, residing in their Rocky Shores habitat. The two were later joined by Moea, another female southern sea otter. 

SEATTLE — The Port of Seattle announced a new partnership with the Seattle Aquarium built around a shared commitment to the future of ocean sustainability, Seattle tourism promotion, and a thriving maritime community on Seattle’s waterfront.

Virtual streaming on YouTube, December 31 at 11:30am Pacific time, free
 
Everyone is invited to join us for our second annual Noon Year’s Eve celebration! We’re excited to welcome 2022 with new animals, music and dances—and even more fun than last year.

Join us as we kick off the new season of our popular Lightning Talks virtual events with an always-fascinating topic: sharks! Learn surprising facts and be mesmerized as five speakers talk for five minutes each about the amazing world of sharks and the efforts underway to protect and restore their populations around the world. You’ll come away with renewed awe for these incredible and often-misunderstood animals!

SEATTLE, WA—Now through spring, an awe-inspiring, curated exhibit, Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home, will be on display at the Seattle Aquarium.

Seattle Aquarium divers carving pumpkins—underwater! Watch as they wield their tools and fend off curious fish to filet pumpkins into squash masterpieces. Visitors will be able to view various floating fish-o’-lanterns in the Window on Washington Waters habitat through Halloween.

Today is World Habitat Day, and the Seattle Aquarium and Woodland Park Zoo have teamed up to celebrate our commitment to the species and spaces of the beautiful Pacific Northwest. 

The Seattle Aquarium recently announced the appointment of Kat Willson as the new director of marketing and communications. She began work in this role in September 15.

OLYMPIA. Washington’s new single-use plastic bag ban will go in effect on October 1, 2021. As of that date, retailers in the state will no longer hand out single-use, thin film plastic bags. If customers do not bring their own reusable bags, retailers can provide paper bags or reusable thicker plastic bags for an 8-cent fee, which is retained by the retailer to cover the higher cost of those bags.

FREE family-friendly salmon viewing programs! Follow salmon up the Cedar River this October! Watch our local salmon spawning, learn about their life cycle and discover the things we can all do to improve watershed health. A threatened run of Chinook, as well as sockeye and coho, return to the Cedar River each fall. Sockeye salmon are the easiest to spot since they spawn together in groups and are brightly colored, with red bodies and green heads. Look for larger Chinook in deeper pools, and watch for coho migrating back to the upper reaches of the watershed.

Design a mobile experience to inspire conservation action through empathy for animals. Do you care about animals and the environment? So do we at the Seattle Aquarium! We work every day to take excellent care of the animals that reside at the Aquarium and help people connect with animals in their native habitats. We also enjoy sharing what our guests can visitors do to help the marine environment.