Celebrity Fish
One of the Aquarium抯 recent acquisitions has received international attention. The unique story of the Striped Beakfish who rode four thousand miles across the Pacific from Japan to the United States in the debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami piqued the interest of the UK抯 BBC.
Nadege Laici, a researcher for the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, England, brought two crew members to the Seaside Aquarium this September to film the welltreled fish and interview the General Manager, Keith Chandler.
The Striped Beakfish in question was discovered in the bait box of a Japanese fishing boat that washed ashore in Long Beach, Washington last March. Striped Beakfish typically live on coastal reefs in the waters of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Dubbed 'Tsu', (after the tsunami that carried it here) the beakfish has been on display since April. After its two-year journey, Tsu now lives a life of leisure, eating local delicacies like razor clams and salmon in the Aquarium抯 only heated tank (kept at 55 degrees Fahrenheit).
Tsu will be featured in a BBC documentary called "Nature's Weirdest Events".